The Fiona wall design factory was founded back in 1897, hence the Fiona wall designs have a long history.
One day we located some of the early designs produced at the Fiona wall design factory…and soon we discovered that the prints throughout the 20th century illustrate the fashion, the history and the trends in both art and clothing…..
Therefore, we have collected some of the prints representing the various decades in order to tell you the story of art & design though the Fiona wall designs…..The twentieth century opens with the development of artistic modernism that began during the nineteenth century. At the turn of the century, the fauvist artist led by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), produce paintings characterized by the broad application of bright colors. At approximately the same time, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) pioneer the cubist style.
Around year 1900 the Art Nouveau style dominates design and architecture around the turn of the decorative arts objects, architecture and entire domestic environment.
During the second half of the nineteenth century, a number of forces transformed the avant-garde design scene. Machine-produced pastiches of historical styles were increasingly shunned in favor of new designs that derived forms and decorative motifs from nature.
The necessary handiwork, however, proved to be time-consuming and prohibitively expensive, and designs could only be produced in limited numbers. Making well-designed objects accessible to a wide public required the assistance of machines, and in the years around 1900, designers began to re-evaluate the importance of mass production as they attempted to forge a new and positive alliance of art and industry.
Papers from 1900-1920
Papers from 1920
Disillusioned by the failure of Art Nouveau and competing with advances in design and manufacturing in the early years of the century, French designers felt the need to re-establish their role as leaders in the luxury trade. In 1925, the French government sponsored an international exhibition of decorative arts. It was this fair, that gave its name to the style now commonly known as Art Deco.
The stylistic unity of exhibits (which ranged from architecture to perfume bottles) indicates that Art Deco had become an internationally mature style by 1925—one that had flourished following World War I and peaked at the time of the fair. The enormous commercial success of Art Deco ensured that designers and manufacturers throughout Europe would continue to promote the style well into the 1930s.
In 1947 Christian Dior (1905–1957) introduces the "New Look" in women's clothes. After Dior's sudden death in 1957, his assistant Yves Saint Laurent (born 1936) becomes head of design for the company.
Papers from 1940
The years following World War II were characterized by enormous change on every level. The pressing need for inexpensive housing and furnishings spurred a boom in design and production. A new optimism—filled with the promise of the future—prevailed. Commercial jet travel was introduced in 1957, and ease of travel in the jet age encouraged a growing fusion of cultural influences. In particular, a blurring of Eastern and Western aesthetics and technology represented an entirely new cultural fusion.
Papers from 1950/60
The elaborate households of the prewar years were gone, replaced by informality and adaptability. Gone, too, was the conventional approach to furnishings as expensive and permanent status objects. New materials and technologies many of which had been developed during wartime, helped to free design from tradition, allowing for increasingly abstract and sculptural aesthetics as well as lower prices for mass-produced objects.
The development of plastics from the mid-nineteenth century to the present has profoundly changed the materials of our physical world. As plastics inundated the home, workplace, and every industry and profession, they also found their place as a material for the creation of art.
In the late 80’ies forms and materials (like steel and glass) associated with high modernist architecture, but in expressive rather than purely rationalist ways becomes very popular.
Papers from 1980