known as Art Nouveau kept the movement from being more widespread than it might have been.
Craftsmanship, themes from nature, and wavy sinuous lines are the hallmark of the Art Nouveau style. Art Deco is a movement that originated later than Art Nouveau and is often confused with it, but the two are distinctly different. The designs in Art Deco are more geometric, angular and jagged in line. Deco designs are symbolic of the machine-age, whereas the Art Nouveau movement is a reaction against the machine age and its designs are softer, more difficult to mass produce and embody themes of nature and the fantastic, “Art Nouveau designs are characterized by images borrowed from nature, by swirling, sinuous lines and by a devotion to craftsmanship. The movement was formed, in part, to protest an increasingly mechanized world, so organic forms were prized. Surfaces of furniture, wall coverings, lamps, clocks and vases are covered with trailing, twisting patterns that threaten to
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