Posts Tagged ‘mission designers’

An Art Lesson: A Brief History of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts Movements

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

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Art Deco was born in 1925 at the Paris International Exposition and lived and evolved over a quarter of a century. Evoking images of nude nymphs, geometry-centric lines curves and shapes, early chrome and glass and caricatures of greyhound dogs, Art Deco has often been misunderstood.
Within the genre of Deco there were several sub-categories. [...]

What Does Organic Mean? What is Organic Design? Ask Frank Lloyd Wright

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Frank Lloyd Wright believed in organic lifestyles and environments. His thought was that “The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.” In the early part of the twentieth century Wright and other organic minded Arts and Crafts [...]