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Art Noveau

Art Noveau was a style that preceded a style which was almost like its own - art deco. Although these two styles might seem very similar, they can also be easily distinguished. Art Noveau was more ornamented, while art deco was more on the simplistic and sleeker side. Art deco adapted more geometric and symmetrical design, while art noveau stuck with more curves and flowery patterns.

Art Noveau emerged from the industrial revolution with expressions of art. They started implementing the use of patterns and designs on both the facades and the interiors seen on the structures belonging to the style. I guess that they were sick of the uniformity and dullness of the use of plain silver and steel and the restrictions brought on by the use of these materials during the industrial revolution, so they responded to that uniformity with the use of playful colours such as bright yellow, blue, etc. and went back to using organic materials, such as bricks. They defied the stiffness of the structures during the industrial revolution, and started using more curves.

Art deco, which followed after art noveau, still used certain aspects of the style before it but only to a certain extent. Art deco was a more developed and more stylized version of art noveau, where their structures appear more formal and more grandeur-looking as compared to art noveau structures.