A professional graphic designer who uses her background in art history and restoration to create everyday objects you can enjoy in your home or as wearable art. It's a joy to bring the best art and design of ages past into everyday life, plus invitations and DIY party projects. If you don't already share my love for artists and illustrators such as Alphonse Mucha, Edmund Dulac, Beatrix Potter, Carl Larsson and John Tenniel, perhaps you'll discover a new enthusiasm.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Alphonse Mucha Laurel Art Nouveau Coffee Tea Mug



Alphonse Mucha Laurel Art Nouveau Coffee Tea Mug from Zazzle.com

Le Laurier (Laurel), 1901 by Alphonse Mucha (color lithograph). 

Like its companion pieceLe Lierre (Ivy), the wonderful trompe l'oeil effect gives this piece an earthy, garden feel and a tactile appeal. You want to actually reach out and feel the texture of the tile mosaics. The Arts and Crafts Movement influence is stronger and the palette more restrained in these two pieces than in Mucha's other works, yet that lyrical Mucha magic is as potent as ever.

Now you can enjoy this beautiful work of art with your morning tea or coffee.  It gives me great pleasure to bring the best art of past centuries into our own for everyday use and enjoyment.  

Add the matching mouse pad for a smashing desk set.  Please see the Art Nouveau Collection in my gallery for more coordinating items.
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