Art Nouveau

Alphonse Mucha

Art Nouveau is a style that has always attracted me aesthetically-- something about the beautiful people and clothes with swirls and dreamy backgrounds I found very appealing. I ended up using Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde's Salome in my final project on image-text analysis, which happened rather serendipitously. I remember telling my thesis advisor that I couldn't think of anything to focus on, and I told him that I was thinking about looking at an illustrated canonical text. He suggested Beardsley and Wilde's art nouveau styled Salome, which was right up my alley. I couldn't have asked for a better match! Nowadays I'm still drawn to anything with an art nouveau aesthetic, and intend on incorporating some of it in my new apartment.

Alphonse Mucha

Jules Cheret

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec 

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

Wall Collages

Bohemian Wornest

When we move to Victoria, I intend on doing some type of wall collage-- something that was inspired via Pinterest (where most of these images came from). I like the idea of using different shapes, sizes, and mediums (so not just all photographs or art) and possibly to incorporate some mirrors.

In our current apartment (before we took most of it down), we had a lot of hanging pieces of art and photos that took up the space well. White walls are boring to me and we weren't allowed to paint, so hanging fun pieces up was the best next thing. I think with a wall collage not only will it give our apartment a funky bohemian/eclectic aesthetic, it will also allow room for new pieces!

katiedid

Christine Fife Interiors

Lust Ambitions

Elle Decore (Japanese)

Dishfunctional Designs

Home & Garden (French)