http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#d36dc793-b3bc-4938-9b93-26045c7223e9 Here's the finished work: http://people.tribe.net/stephenfitz-gerald/blog/7063bec1-0633-46b4-bfc8-b0ec2deaa2ba And here are detail shots before delivery: http://ou8nrtist2.deviantart.com/art/Vertebrae-Conference-Table-108648061 http://ou8nrtist2.deviantart.com/art/VertebraeConferenceTabledetail-108652608 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:31:22 GMT http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#d36dc793-b3bc-4938-9b93-26045c7223e9 Stephen 2009-01-11T00:31:22Z http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#58c009dd-ea0f-4d9d-8536-09e25b5ef4c5 I will post when complete... Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:18:41 GMT http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#58c009dd-ea0f-4d9d-8536-09e25b5ef4c5 Stephen 2008-12-31T09:18:41Z http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#b94164d5-fa8c-442d-a9a7-b02f02134163 Sometimes you gotta slip it in on them before they can realize that’s what they wanted in the first place. Sounds like an interesting design. I'd like to see it progress. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:31:47 GMT http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#b94164d5-fa8c-442d-a9a7-b02f02134163 Le Chat Noir 2008-12-31T06:31:47Z http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#840eb58d-c82f-439f-80b5-b3700c0c04b8 I think the few of us who are both designers AND fabricators become aware of these incongruities and frustrations in modern aesthetics perhaps sooner than most... I have a current challenge that I am hoping to morph into a hybrid style by marrying the ORGANIC (which I usually associate with Art Nouveau),with the INDUSTRIAL which is the clients preferred aesthetic. I've been commissioned by a monster design studio in L.A. (they make monster props and prosthetics) to make a large conference table with glass top 4'x9'. They specifically requested "I-beam" legs. My design (which has been approved and I am currently building)is a "trestle table"and will feature a large sculpted spinal vertebrae made with forged steel details as a structural member spanning the center of the large structure and connecting the two ends together. In this way I give the clients their heavy industrial visual,but also soften that angularity and allude to an image from the natural world ,albeit represented in heavy industrial materials (forged 1/2 inch plate).The spinal column is designed to be seen just beneath the glass top. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:39:59 GMT http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#840eb58d-c82f-439f-80b5-b3700c0c04b8 Stephen 2008-12-30T18:39:59Z http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#954c1236-17a3-48de-9289-82c1b72934a0 "...it is appealing to think that we could return to simply trying to produce the most beautiful objects humanly possible for the largest possible audience at the highest possible quality. This has always been difficult, but it is clearly what the Art Nouveau designers were trying to do, and I think it's about time we tried to do it again." Nice quote and a nice read. Thanks for sharing this. I try my best to interject, and thus hopefully be a part of reviving, Art Nouveau (NeoNouveau, maybe?) whenever I can and still be respectful and harmonious with the space I’m working within. I think people are yearning more and more for the evidence of humanity. The age of sleek, mass produced high-tech as a thing by itself seem to be waning. I’m seeing this strange melding of the two and I like it. My personal preferences lean towards my own interpretation of the traditional forms and lines, but I’m open to flowing with the lot of it as well. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:58:52 GMT http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#954c1236-17a3-48de-9289-82c1b72934a0 Le Chat Noir 2008-12-30T06:58:52Z http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#b6f2f893-8b5a-4214-892e-74b28f38fb18 I just found one of the most edifying discussions about Art Nouveau by a curator from the Victoria and Albert Museum for a recent show at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. I found the last few paragraphs most particularly illuminating,describing Art Nouveau as an emphatically CELEBRATORY style rather than based on critique and irony,as Post Modern Style is(and most of the subsequent styles of the 20th century SINCE art Nouveau for that matter).... I realize now that adjective ;"Celebratory" is one of the main reasons I resonate so strongly with the style and find it invigorating as compared to later styles which leave me depleted... Here's the link to the interview and discussion: http://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/concept_paul.shtm Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:53:11 GMT http://artnouveau.tribe.net/thread/d13bb103-a217-4d6e-a5ea-87e198c02eff#b6f2f893-8b5a-4214-892e-74b28f38fb18 Stephen 2008-12-21T01:53:11Z