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DOI Artikel:Baxter, Leonora R.: Art in everyday live
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ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE LE0N0RA
R. BAXTER
in his field of endeavor. He painted directly upon the wall-
paper, and later his designs were printed. It was at this
time that the courts of both England and France adopted
the Chinese fad. Particularly in France, under the
patronage of Louis XV, the Oriental manner of design
thrived, and combined with the inimitable lightness and
grace of French influence, it comes to us as a precious
heritage of beauty, representing the cumulative art of
several centuries and countries. Fortunate indeed are
American decorators and individuals who can go to their
own wallpaper manufacturers to find the true and har-
monious background for the lacquered furniture now so
greatly in vogue.
ti /4~ucu has been written about the remodeling pos-
lyl sibilities of old brownstone-front houses of New
York City. Ugly indeed in their original Victorian
heaviness of design and construction, they have been trans-
formed, under the almost magic touch of modern archi-
wallpaper of chinese design
Courtesy of the Baeck Wallpaper Co.
The strong interest in Chinese lacquered furniture
of the late eighteenth century so prevalent now
among those who are making really decorative inte-
riors has brought renewed interest in the wall paintings
and papers which belong to the same period, and it is a
welcome industrial development that our wall paper manu-
facturers have turned to these treasures of the Orient and
of the Continent for inspiration in design, and are placing
excellent reproductions before the American public for
appropriate use. It was long ago that the Dutch and
Portuguese traders first brought wall paper from China
to Europe, yet in France today no wall papers are more
highly prized than those showing Chinese influence.
Chinese papers were marvelous in color, beauty of design
and balance of composition, but lacked perspective. This
the French supplied, with characteristic delicacy of treat-
ment, creating what is known as Franco-Chinese papers—
a whimsical combination, so charmingly decorative that it
has a permanent artistic value and appeal. Printing in
color was known in China in the sixteenth century, perhaps tects, into places of varied and alluring beauty. These
earlier. The first importation of wall paper, however, was architects have drawn inspiration from the best concep-
not printed, but painted by hand on rice paper with tions of Continental as well as Colonial art, and have
gouache, and touched up with Chinese ink. The favorite applied their ideas with consummate skill and daring to
designs up to the middle of the eighteenth century were narrow confines and banal conventionalities. America owes
birds and flowers, and then the feeling for landscape effects a debt to their imagination, and to their execution, made
began to influence the manufacturers, and the illustration possible by the intelligent co-operation of local artisans,
given shows a happy combination of the two. This paper The illustration gives just a glimpse of a very charming
is made by the Baeck Wallpaper Company, in charming stairway in a reconstructed old house in East 94th Street,
and adaptable tones, and is a reproduction of a Pillement done in modified Italian style. The architects, Polhemus
design, recolored to meet modern needs. Pillement worked & Coffin, have cleverly contrived to impart an idea of
in France during the latter half of the eighteenth century, space in close quarters by use of the very light wrought-
when the Chinese decorative influence was at its height, iron railing. The cut stone steps are of solid construction,
and his output registers the acme of artistic achievement and the walnut handrail is substantial, but the ensemble
stairway in a remodeled house
Ironwork by Warman & Cook
november I 9 2 5
one Jorty-nine
ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE LE0N0RA
R. BAXTER
in his field of endeavor. He painted directly upon the wall-
paper, and later his designs were printed. It was at this
time that the courts of both England and France adopted
the Chinese fad. Particularly in France, under the
patronage of Louis XV, the Oriental manner of design
thrived, and combined with the inimitable lightness and
grace of French influence, it comes to us as a precious
heritage of beauty, representing the cumulative art of
several centuries and countries. Fortunate indeed are
American decorators and individuals who can go to their
own wallpaper manufacturers to find the true and har-
monious background for the lacquered furniture now so
greatly in vogue.
ti /4~ucu has been written about the remodeling pos-
lyl sibilities of old brownstone-front houses of New
York City. Ugly indeed in their original Victorian
heaviness of design and construction, they have been trans-
formed, under the almost magic touch of modern archi-
wallpaper of chinese design
Courtesy of the Baeck Wallpaper Co.
The strong interest in Chinese lacquered furniture
of the late eighteenth century so prevalent now
among those who are making really decorative inte-
riors has brought renewed interest in the wall paintings
and papers which belong to the same period, and it is a
welcome industrial development that our wall paper manu-
facturers have turned to these treasures of the Orient and
of the Continent for inspiration in design, and are placing
excellent reproductions before the American public for
appropriate use. It was long ago that the Dutch and
Portuguese traders first brought wall paper from China
to Europe, yet in France today no wall papers are more
highly prized than those showing Chinese influence.
Chinese papers were marvelous in color, beauty of design
and balance of composition, but lacked perspective. This
the French supplied, with characteristic delicacy of treat-
ment, creating what is known as Franco-Chinese papers—
a whimsical combination, so charmingly decorative that it
has a permanent artistic value and appeal. Printing in
color was known in China in the sixteenth century, perhaps tects, into places of varied and alluring beauty. These
earlier. The first importation of wall paper, however, was architects have drawn inspiration from the best concep-
not printed, but painted by hand on rice paper with tions of Continental as well as Colonial art, and have
gouache, and touched up with Chinese ink. The favorite applied their ideas with consummate skill and daring to
designs up to the middle of the eighteenth century were narrow confines and banal conventionalities. America owes
birds and flowers, and then the feeling for landscape effects a debt to their imagination, and to their execution, made
began to influence the manufacturers, and the illustration possible by the intelligent co-operation of local artisans,
given shows a happy combination of the two. This paper The illustration gives just a glimpse of a very charming
is made by the Baeck Wallpaper Company, in charming stairway in a reconstructed old house in East 94th Street,
and adaptable tones, and is a reproduction of a Pillement done in modified Italian style. The architects, Polhemus
design, recolored to meet modern needs. Pillement worked & Coffin, have cleverly contrived to impart an idea of
in France during the latter half of the eighteenth century, space in close quarters by use of the very light wrought-
when the Chinese decorative influence was at its height, iron railing. The cut stone steps are of solid construction,
and his output registers the acme of artistic achievement and the walnut handrail is substantial, but the ensemble
stairway in a remodeled house
Ironwork by Warman & Cook
november I 9 2 5
one Jorty-nine