This can't be Virginia! We never have snow like this! I lived in Vermont for a while. When I look at the streets in town it looks like what I remember from living in the north. Lewis talked about animals in design. Animals have appeared in design and art work since the beginning. The cavemen painted them on their cave's walls. Man has had an affinity and admiration for animals. Throughout art history animals have appeared in paintings, in sculpture and in pottery. We just found a great brass magazine rack by Jansen in the shape of a swan. There are a lot of reproductions of this piece. Jansen had a lot of their brass and metal work done in Italy. This one is marked made in Italy on the center spine. The quality of the workmanship is definitely that of Jansen and the back ribs are more wishbone shaped.
One of my favorite periods is Art Deco.
Art Deco was a period of art, architecture, design, furniture and other art forms created from about 1925 through the 1940's. The furniture of this period was influenced greatly by the Biedermeier furniture of the mid 19th century which originated in Germany. Biedermeier furniture was based on utilitarian principles producing truth through design.Local woods were used making simple but elegant pieces. Furniture of the deco period also represented truth through clean, simple, and refined designs. Art deco was a fusion of Biedermeier, Futurism, Cubism,and Constructivism. It had no philosophical roots, art deco was pure decorative and utilitarian.
Art Deco furniture's classic clean design makes it easy to use with other classic design periods.
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