art deco

im really inspired with art deco at the moment love this style

my interior design rooms



im decorating shannons room and this is the way it will look when its finished




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rene lalique designer wow wow wow

rene lalique glass deigner

The life of rene lalique and his artistic career covered the three most important movements in the field of decorative arts - Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
Rene Lalique was born René Jules Lalique in Ay, France on April 6, 1860, He became an iconic glass designer, especially noted for his stunning creations which, included perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and car bonnet ornaments.
The company Lalique founded in 1885, still operates and its creations are still sought after by the modern collector. His beautiful jewellery designs and stunning glasswork contributed significantly to the art nouveau movement.
Recognising her son's artistic talent, his mother steered him at the age of 16 to an apprenticeship with the famous Paris jeweler, Louis Aucoc. By the age of 21, Lalique was creating his own original jewellery.
From 1878-1880 he attended Sydenham Art College in London, and on returning to France, he worked for Aucoq, Cartier, Boucheron and others.
In 1882 he became a freelance designer for several top jewellery houses in Paris and four years later established his own jewellery workshop.
By 1890, Lalique was recognized as one of France's foremost art nouveau jewellery designers; creating innovative pieces for Samuel Bing's new Paris shop, La Maison de l'Art Nouveau.
He went on to be one of the most famous in his field, his name is now synonymous with creativity and quality.

In the 1920s Rene Lalique became famous for his work in the Art Deco style and among other things he was responsible for the walls of lighted glass and the elegant glass columns that filled the dining room and grand salon of the SS Normandie.
Much of his jewellery is exquisitely delicate, and depicts natural forms like flowers, leaves and seed pods. His pieces often had little or no intrinsic value as he didn't use large gemstones in his work.
He refined the use of glass in jewellery, not as imitation diamonds or other precious stones, but as a painter uses paint.

Rene Lalique master glass maker...

Lalique had experimented with glass in his jewellery making and at 50 years of age he embarked on a new career as a glassmaker. A career that would gain him the worldwide recognition that continues today.
In 1907 lalique opened a shop near the business of the famous perfumier Francois Coty.
He began creating classic glass perfume bottles for Coty and, eventually he was asked to do the same for Worth, Forvil, D'Orsay, Guerlain, Rogeret et Gallet. In all, Lalique created more than 250 different perfume bottles.
Although most sell for modest prices, in 1990, a Lalique perfume bottled fetched $80,000 at auction. A few years ago, a L'ldylle flacon sold for $58,350 at the Philips Geneva flacon auction, and a Japanese bidder paid $8,625 for a Lalique Bochon Fleurs de Pommiers design at a William Doyle Galleries auction in New York.
Reneé Lalique sought to bring art into everyday life by mass producing stemware, tableware, inkwells, clocks, chandeliers, and vases.
At the height of glass production, his factories employed up to 600 people and created millions of pieces of glassware.
But despite his mechanised approach to production, the imagination and beauty of his work is unparalled. He personalized much of his work with frosting, polishing, and glazing to give it that handcrafted and individual feel.
Rather than create a few pieces that could only be enjoyed by the wealthy lalique mass produced his work in the hope that everyone could enjoy it.
In the 1920's lalique turned his hand to decorating the bonnets of cars and in line with his love of the human and animal form, lalique created 29 car mascots in the shapes of fish, horse heads, frogs, dragonflys, shooting stars and St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child. Female nudes were also a favorite design.
Lalique designed all the mascots to be illuminated from within and a 6 or 12 volt bulb was connected to the cars wiring to provide illumination. Filters were also used to change the color of the light to red, blue, green, amber, or mauve.
Lalique mascots ornamented the hoods of the most stylish cars of the day ­ Bentley, Hispano Suiza, Isotta Fraschini, and Bugatti. Today, lalique hood ornaments are highly sought after by collectors.
But nowhere in all his work in glass is Renee Lalique more renowned than for his stunning vases.
His true talent shines in the amber, plum, blue, opalescent, gray, green, black, and yellow hues he obtained by meticulously adding measured amounts of pigment to darkened glass.
Striking animal figures, mythical beasts, and geometric shapes poured from his fertile mind.
The art deco style in laliques jewellery followed through to his work in glass and, distinct geometric designs, smooth flowing lines, and vibrant colors are all characteristic patterns and qualities of lalique glass.

Today, museums around the world feature rene lalique glass.

For the new collector, the two most important considerations are authenticity and condition ; chips, repairs, ground down edges, drill holes will all reduce value. The condition can reduce the value in extreme cases by up to 90%.
As for authenticity, there is very little worry about known Lalique designs being faked. But there is a very big problem with modern Czech glass bearing Lalique signatures. eBay sellers list czech glass in large volumes as Lalique. You can also see less valuable French glass of the 1920s with a Lalique signature."
Lalique used mass production techniques to make his work available and affordable to people in most income brackets. Literally millions of pieces have been created since the early 1900s, and Lalique factories continue to produce fine glass and crystal today.
In the 1940s World War II forced the closure of his factory.
He died in 1945 before it could be re-opened.
After his death, laliques son Marc re-started the company and in 1948, he changed production from demi-crystal to full lead crystal.
Lalique's granddaughter, Marie-Claude, later led the company and implemented her own style with clear crystal accented with colored motifs.

The pre-WWII lalique pieces are the most highly sought after by collectors.

Lalique marked his work, even the mass-produced pieces R. Lalique. However, the signature can be found in molded, script, print, and curved designs.
In addition the leading L in the earlier cursive Lalique signatures has a curleyque on top, making the letter resemble an S.
Lalique used too many signatures in too many ways to allow for a definitive guide as to what was made before or after 1945.

• The pieces created by Marc Lalique are signed Lalique France
• The pieces created by Marie-Claude are signed Lalique h France.

Read more about perfume bottles by http://www.antique-marks.com/

my art

my ensuite room interior design

portrait not too great practice makes perfect lol

WORDS....my inspiration for my dream catcher

fashion design

my idea of what my dream catchers going to look like......driftwood,beads feathers,words,and thread for sewing on the words

old pics ..down my memory lane lol

my mum ...aw i think shes so cute and im loving the dress and the little shoes ......found this in my big photo box, love looking back at old pics

hanging around

its raining its pouring

ensuite my own design

other half of my room

my deco room design

I designed this room with a programmme i love so addictive ...........tried to design it to be similar to my interior design drawing at college

how sweet is this

i adore this lampshade.... so cute

Romantic Bathroom Designs

January 11, 2011 - Category : Bathroom

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The luxurious romantic bathroom designs by the Italian company Savio Firmino are all about romance. The 1941 bath collection is made in collaboration with architect J. Pizzorno and capability Guido Savio, who have created a magnificent setting for everyday enjoyment. The opposite of minimalism style, we would in this collection “maximalist” call the best. This furniture features refined, elegant hand-carved wooden details, that its ancient appearance. Adorned with precious stones and gold leaf and silver leaf, these pieces of treasures in their own right. The bathroom is no longer reserved only for swimming, but it is a space dedicated to beauty, wellness and sweet rest.

stone age house portugal

 

stoneage house in portugal ....wow wow wow

Who knew the Stoneage would make a roaring comeback?? Check out this amazing stone house exterior, tucked in a peaceful pastoral setting in Nas Montanhas de Fafe, Portugal. This hillside house boasts unobstructed, untarnished views of the grass-covered mountain and valley. This unusual structure isn’t your typical house, featuring an irregular exterior, but some traditional “house” elements were incorporated – namely, its charming windows and a shingled roof that stands out among these seemingly untouched, natural surroundings.
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vintage

love this lamp-shade very vintage

fashion design

With Fashion design there is meant a subject that has designing and the creating of Clothing fashion in it. The first person that you could actually call a “Couturier” was a man called Charles Frederick Worth. Charles was not just any couturier, but he was also the originator of the Fashion style called “Haute Couture”. Haute Couture is French and means as much as “high sewing” or “high dressmaking”.
Charles achieved that clients thought about a particular fashion style when they heard the word fashion, he created traditions, fashion collections that were presented on mannequins. After Worth’s time of designing and changing the women world it was the time for somebody new, it was the time for Paul Poiret, that stuck to one’s principles and continued with Haute Couture. Paul was also the one that changed something, for what women would be thankful for him their whole lives. He began to remove the corsets out of the fashion. Other designers got on stage following the traditions of Worth and Poiret, such as Patou, Vionnet, Jeanne Lanvin, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent. So many great and famous designer that are still in our hearts today. Of course everywhere where you can find fashion you will always find fashion icons. Almost every fashion icon was a woman. Women such as Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn, powerful, emancipated women that were fighting for their rights. The fought and they triumphed, they won a place in every girl’s heart.

Most of you already heard of the two styles Haute Couture and
Prêt-à-porter, but do all of you really know what those two styles mean? Or what the difference is?
An Haute Couture Collection is a very exclusive collection that is made for the higer class under us. Haute Couture is made to order/ tailored. The look and fit take priority over the cost of materials and the time it takes to make.
Prêt-à-porter instead is Ready-to-wear. It is not tailored, because ist made for the usual sizes. It is a cross between Haute Couture and mass market. Ready-to-wear collections are usually presented by fashion houses each season during a period known as Fashion Week. This takes place on a city-wide basis and occurs twice a year.
A very special fashion designer that combined art and fashion in one was Alexander McQueen. First he started to design dresses for his three sisters, where he got to the taste to became a fashion designer. McQueen studied on the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, where he got in 1992 his Master of Arts. Alexander’s style was not that what you would have called for everyone. It was unique.

You may not noticed it, but in this picture there is actually a model under those snakes, for some its pure horror to lay under snakes, but for Alexander McQueen it was an illusion, that he wanted to show with his fashion and combination with nature, animals, just something different.
Everybody wanted him to design something for them. Givenchy, Gucci and other fashion houses worked together with him, but also Celebrities themselves, such as Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Sarah Jessica Parker or Rihanna have frequently been spotted wearing Alexander McQueen clothing to events. Since 2006 McQueen was designing mostly costumes for Lady Gaga. By the end of 2007, Alexander McQueen had boutiques in London, New York, Los Angeles, Milan and Las Vegas. McQueen’s death was a shock for everybody. He was found dead in the morning of the 11th February 2010 in his wardrobe.
McQueen’s was something beautiful. It was very abstract, outré, bizarre and fancy, probably not for every event, but his fashion was pure art. Art on a person.
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