It seems as though the Halloween House was pretty popular a few weeks ago, so I thought I would share some furniture from the slightly distrubing world of another Art Nouveau designer: Rupert Carabin. He is part of the Symbolist sub-catagory of Art Nouveau, a sub-catagory usually associated with the female figure and fairly obvious sensual overtones. Carabin not only fits into this sub-cataory, but goes
crazy with it. Feminists, I must warn you, you may be offended by Rupert's artistic vision. I myself, just find it utterly odd and frankly pretty amusing. My only real question: who on earth bought these things??? And of course, what is his deal with cats? And why did he feel they paired nicely with the nude female figure?
Another spiderweb-ish motif here...never knew this was an Art Nouveau thing:
Wow, this looks heavy...
Ummmm..... this one looks highly uncomfortable as well as heavy:
Back view:
Front view:
And I don't think there is much for comment with this one:
Of course one must keep in mind these pieces were all made in the 1890's....apparently it was a
very different time.
Next week I'm all about Thanksgiving decorating....so skip Martha and visit this blog instead!
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