Armchair
Carlo Bugatti, 1895-1900
The Victoria & Albert Museum
“In the late nineteenth century, encouraged by influential retailers such as Liberty in London, La Maison Bing in Paris, and Tiffany in New York, the cult of the exotic flourished in interior design. One of the most original contributions to this taste was made by the Italian designer Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940), who had trained at the Brera Academy in Milan in the 1870s, followed by a period of study in Paris. Bugatti was interested in architecture and also designing silver, but is now best known for his furniture, which be began producing on a commercial scale in Milan in 1888.
Bugatti’s furniture attempted to break away from historical conventions, reflecting the Art Nouveau appreciation in nature and the aesthetics of Japan, the architecture of North Africa and the motifs of Islamic art. His use of materials such as painted vellum and stamped brass was also adventurous. Although his furniture was often thought to be too bizarre to be imitated by his contemporaries, it met with critical success, receiving a Diploma of Honour at the 1888 Italian Exhibition at Earl’s Court, London, and a medal at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin in 1902. His opulent and theatrical interiors appealed to clients such as Lord Battersea, who commissioned a bedroom for his London home from the firm around 1900.
By the time of the Turin exhibition, Bugatti’s designs had become very sculptural, using bold geometric forms and large areas of sparsely painted vellum. This chair, similar to one exhibited at Turin, is typical of his furniture both in the design and in the materials used. The geometric frame and shield-like motifs on the legs show Bugatti’s awareness of oriental and Islamic motifs, while the painted vellum for the seat and back is an unconventional upholstery material.”
Still in the weirdest place, cooooonnnnstant experiment.
(Source: poetsorg)
Ah how I wish my painting would come out of this really weird state that it currently is in.
Under painting in oil for class though.
Velociraptor by littlelistmaker
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I Shall Do The Same:
it’s a bit colder now but green green green! mmmmm (:
(home, west philly, and philadelphia museum of art surrounding gardens)
Medelion sculpture of Marie Antoinette
(C) RMN-GP (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot
Yupoooo (and horribly pin pricked studio walls)
recent sketchbooking
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“clarev replied to your post: and a close up of one of the distemper…
be cool to do like really high res photos and blow em up hugeeee”
Gahhhh I can’t get this idea out of my headd (Clare how are you so genius and fetdifergfayghgsfg)
I don’t know if I’ll try encaustic painting much/at all after this class, but it was certainly fun to try (: the way you could easily build up the surface to a sculptural kind of effect was super enjoyable. But, more trouble than it’s worth really haha.
AND, in other news my laptop’s screen seems to be dying, what fun!
Morning time experiments in encaustic! By far the strangest medium that we have learned in the class thus far :) I feel like a kid playing around with it :)))
