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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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arisian.Roy,in 1576, a Saxon by birth; Laurent Staber, Charles Andre Boule is in it the arriving from Holland in 1608, and gaming fame Louvre. His studios c prise twenty-six work- at the Galleries du Louvre, and, thirty years shops; two occupied by the ioinei , eighteenlater, Van Opstal, Ostermayer, Equeman, cabinet by the cabinet makers, and six by bronzemakers to the king. They had broughttheir native craft oiveneer, tortoise, ivoryand copper, and marquet-erie-mosaics of exoticand costly woods, shippedto the shores of Hollandfrom newly discoveredfairy lands. The stippia 1Italienne, laden withjewels, the tables a1Espagnole, the heavilycarved armoires, theFlemish cabinets, thechairs a la Gcnoise, dis-appeared, together withthe memories ofCatherine and civil strife.Amateurs rivalled kingand court in adoptingthese gaily cheekedchildren of the North, toteach them French man-ners and mannerisms.And not long after, whenJean Mace, of Blois, re-turns from Flanders withnew secrets of marquet-
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workers, < ngi a 1 rs andmounters. Boulesmiraculous success is dueto his magic skill inexpressing luxury andwealth with a delicacyand grace prc\ iousK un-known. The mounts andfriezes, alive with plasticexpression, seem to growfrom their bodies, soperfect in outline, and ofcontour easy to embrace-by the eye. The mood of thenation under LouisQuartorze was magnifi-cence, just as roman-ticism filled the souls inthe middle ages, and toexpress magnificence andIavishness in good taste,to display riches withoutflaunting, was the pur-pose of architectural andinterior adornment. While Boule nour-ished at the Louvre, two Italian designers,erie, and is installed at the Louvre, rosewood and marqueterie Philippe Caffieri and Domenicoin 1647, placage (veneer) of tor- SEC picii-cigv. ^vtlicei; ui lui THE STVLEl()MIADOlR, SIGNED »»»■»■ > ... toise, ebony and figured woods, the r- v. l. <. best of their brilliant native

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