Clodagh 

Clodagh is an American designer from Ireland. She pulls a lot of inspiration from nature and biophilic designs. She was one of the earliest adopters of Feng Shui in her design practice.  She has a trade mark of "Life-Enhancing Minimalism". She owns a multi-discipline design firm based in New York City founded in 1989. Clodagh is made up of three distinctive business divisions: Clodagh Design International, Clodagh Design Signature, and Clodagh Collection. I hope to be a commercial interior designer one day and I really enjoy her work.

www.clodagh.com 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-4k-6oVSm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecYJ5AS3iys

Lisa: I love your Dorothy Draper interior with the leaves on the walls. Its super fun!

Sara: I really enjoyed watching your Elsie de Wolf youtube video. It was very interesting! 

ART DECO

In the art deco time period there was tension between functionalists and decorators. The functionalists valued function, simplicity, mass production, designing for the common person and social good. The decorators valued labor intensive craftsmanship, elite market, and they weren't concerned with social theory. France was the point of origin of art deco. It was a very fashion oriented style that was strongly decorated and the furniture resembled skyscrapers. There were certain aspects of the art deco era. The essence of art deco were chevron shapes, zig-zags, folding screens, stepped furniture that looked like skyscrapers, large mirrors and prominent light fixtures.

Michel Roux-Spitz
He was a french architect who had a highly decorated style. It was a fashion oriented style that was not concerned with functionalism. This is his Bureau de Administrateur.

Maurice Dufrene 

I really enjoy Maurice Dufrene's furniture. It was hand crafted furniture that was simple with not much decorative detail. 

Current Applications of Art Deco 

Peer Review 

Somang: Really nice blog! I love how much detail you get into. Explaining the difference between art deco and art nouveau was really nice. 

Haley: I like how you included the pictures of the buildings. It really shows how the design of that era was focused and inspired from those. I love your current applications.