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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ber of writing desks of importance modelledon the same lines. The Bureau du Roi proclaims the return ofthe straight line, as a subservient still to thesovereign curve, but particularly in the treatmentof the gallery in the definite form of the StyleLouis Seize. This style in its incipient stageshows an imaginative quality which was lost in thecoming days of hysteria and outward show; thesense of fitness of the Grande Dame was still in theair telling the designers that Paris and Athenscould be friendly cousins, but not brother andsister. Our eves repose on the chamfered cabriole,the blocked front, the unadulterated Greekmounts, and the increasing delight in beautifulmarqueterie, rivalling in inventiveness the foam-ing fantastic Rocaille. The vivacious Dauphine, at her arrival inFrance, found herself in an atmosphere of tastefulcultivation, naturally somewhat precieuse, andcuriously contrasting with the stately bon-homme of Vienna under Maria Theresa. She I WO n 1 n et\ 922 JDAL stroa©
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eagerly sought to adjust her THF- Rutland commode in late style mounts appear, willing to 3 , .. . , , LOUIS SEIZE, BY WEISWEILER, WITH MOUNTS ■, i i r youthful eves to the newly by thomire from models by clodion contribute a semblance olevolved forms and to find her cheeriness; the treasury olown predilection. Until the advent of Roentgen, the Parthenon was being ransacked, bronzeBeneman and Schwerdfeger, her contribution became the primary element, with the wood-to the advancement of style—straightened to the work a mere setting, at first achieving admirablepoint of Spartan severity—was her light hearted- results of virginal classicism, as on the Rutlandness, her feminine grace which found supreme commode, by Adam Weisweiler, with its solemnpleasure in Martin Carlins detached balusters presentation of Clodion medallions, beautifullyand his poetic inserts of Japanese lacquer, chased by Thomire, or in Cossons familiarAnd she must have thanked Pompadour for the mounts, simulating

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