17 Facts About Liberty style

Liberty style was the Italian variant of Art Nouveau, which flourished between about 1890 and 1914.

Major Italian designers using the Liberty style included Carlo Bugatti, Raimondo D'Aronco, Eugenio Quarti, and Galileo Chini.

The major event of the Liberty style was the 1902 Turin International Exposition, which featured by works of both Italian designers and other Art Nouveau designers from around Europe.

Liberty style was especially popular in large cities outside of Rome which were eager to establish a distinct cultural identity, particularly Milan, Palermo and Turin, the city where the first major exposition of the style in Italy was held.

Unlike the French and Belgian Art Nouveau, based primarily on nature, Liberty style was more strongly influenced by the Baroque style, with very lavish ornament and color, both on the interior and exterior.

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Liberty style is considered to be a western offshoot of the 19th-century British Arts and Craft movement, which was a response against the mechanization and dehumanizing of the artistic process.

Liberty style kiosk dating back to the early and 1800s, is located in Piazza Verdi in front of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

The major designers in this Liberty style were Vittorio Valebrega and Agostino Lauro, and particularly the furniture manufacturer Valabrega, which produced works in series.

Liberty style's furniture was thoroughly original, having little or no reference to other European versions of Art Nouveau.

Liberty style used an extremely wide range of materials in his furniture, including ivory and rare woods.

Liberty style apprenticed in Paris and worked for a time in the studio of Carlo Bugatti, but soon departed from Bugatti's exoticism and worked in a more classical style.

Liberty style used traditional fine woods, such as mahogany and walnut, combined with inlays of ivory, and brass, glass, and other modern elements.

Distinctive element of Liberty style was the use of frescoes for the interior and exterior decoration.

Liberty style created a series of villas around Palermo between 1899 and 1901.

Interior decoration in the Liberty style continued longer in Italy than in other parts of Europe.

Liberty style created decorative floral designs which were produced in stained glass, majolica or ceramics.

Liberty style became the chair of the department of decoration in the Italian Academy of Fine Arts.