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  Art Nouveau was a design style that focused their importance on using new materials and paving their own way in the world of art and design. This was another movement that did not want to follow with historicism within their pieces. The pieces during this time tended to be more ornamented and often depicting nature scenes, specifically showing flowers, vines, birds, and insects. While this movement stretched across all areas of design and art, interior and designed objects stole the spotlight with many European architects being skilled furniture designers. This style of art become such a powerful style because countries around the world were able to participate due to the lack of historical images used within.  During this time certain colors schemes and forms started to take over the art and design world. Purples, greens, reds, and dark woods were seen in most Art Nouveau interiors as well as furniture pieces. Curvilinear lines and shapes blended in with the focus of nature...

 During the second half of the nineteenth century architects, artists, and furniture designers began to quickly become tired of the Victorian style of design. The Arts and Crafts movement started as a way to opposed Victorian ways and create pieces that were vastly different. While each designer had their own reason for being anti-Victorian, many disliked the historicism and the virtues of the time period being represented. Writers William Morris, John Ruskin, and Pugin "objected to trends in which historic forms were grafted onto new structures with little thought given to their history or meaning." (Hinchman, pg. 367). Along with anti-Victorian views the industrial revolution was also something disliked by the Arts and Crafts movement. Those in the movement felt that the attention to detail and care of furniture pieces had been lost and needed to be rejuvenated. Pieces made in factories were seen as cheap, as the main goal was a quick production and sale. This sparked furni...