art nouveau

Art Nouveau Contest Winner by Lucie Declos of duclosdesign.com

The winner of our palette-restricted, Art Nouveau Fabric Of the Week contest is Fleurs_Nouvelles, by designer Lucie Duclos of San Rafael, California (of duclosdesign.com). Congratulations, Lucie!

This contest featured a terrific bunch of entries. The average visitor cast votes for no fewer than seven favorites. Thanks to everyone who participated! The top ten designs in a contest full of lovely fabrics were:

1. 668 votes for Fleurs_Nouvelles
by snowflower
2. 639 votes for DaisyShell by shala
3. 583 votes for Art_Nouveau_Tulips by
cynthiafrenette
4. 478 votes for art_nouveau by aninkling
5. 460 votes for Art_Nouveau_Stem_III by
idlejo
6. 458 votes for art_nouveau_wheat_tight
by victorialasher
7. 423 votes for Bees and Apple Blossoms
by andrea_kopacek
8. 414 votes for Art Nouveau Alphabet-1
by lacefairy
9. 405 votes for sunflower by lfntextiles
10. 395 votes for NouveauSquirrels by
eowens

One thing we've learned over the past few months is that designers love a palette-restricted fabric design challenge. Something about having to work within a set of constraints makes the creative impulse that much stronger. The results are apparent in the 84 designs that appear in our Art Nouveau fabric contest this week, which required the use of the palette pictured to the right (with white and black as options). In the past we haven't made any effort to weed out designs that did not employ the suggested palette, but this week we did make at least some effort to remove any that strayed from the guidelines in a way that was very obvious. We haven't made any attempt to decide what's really "Art Nouveau" and what isn't. That will have to be up to you! Voting will close on Wednesday, March 24, at 5pm EST, and we'll announce the winner the following day.