Thursday, January 1, 2009
Using Art Deco
Modern Rebirth
History of Art Deco
The materials that you use for this design scheme includes stainless steel, inlaid wood, and even sharkskin or zebra skin. When the machine age arrived, harder on line course more metallic materials joined the list of art deco materials. Art deco accomplishes this through repetition and symmetry. Art deco did well during the depression because it was both practical and simple.
History Of Art Deco Design
Home design highlights art of female form
There are men who love women, and then there’s Joe Best, who sees art in the form of women and women in the form of art.
Throughout the extensive art collection in his 6,000-square-foot Peachtree Battle home, recurring images display the glory of the female: the majestic sweep of her hair, the slope of her shape, the glittering gown meant for her.
Best built this home specifically to showcase a mix of paintings and sculpture from every vantage point. But the women command center stage. That’s why he bordered the foyer’s Brazilian cherry floors with an inlay whose lines function like arrows, drawing the eye of one entering the home to the hall’s end. Here, a mesh of red wire lit from above throws against the far wall the shadow of a sculpted female torso.