Dragon style and Norwegian Art Nouveau

Viking finds and stave churches inspired the dragon style, and Norwegian artists renewed weaving and enamel.

The excavation of Viking ships, such as the Gokstad ship in 1880 and the Oseberg find in 1904, and the ornament of the stave churches gave rise to the dragon style, with dragon heads and interlaced bands on houses and furniture. The Museum of Decorative Arts in Kristiania, today Oslo, was founded in 1876.

Gerhard Munthe made furniture and weavings with motifs and colours from fairy tales. Frida Hansen developed a technique for transparent weaving. The goldsmiths J. Tostrup and David-Andersen became known for plique-à-jour enamel and showed it with success in Paris in 1900.