DOI Heft:
No. 48 (March, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Mourey, Gabriel: The decorative art movement in Paris
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0125
The Decorative Art Movement in Paris
combination of rare materials.
A craftsman of the first rank,
he carves in wood and marble
and ivory, and works on metals
too. He is, moreover, a skil-
ful enameller and blacksmith.
His group, La Fee Melusine
et le Chevalier Raytnondin, ex-
hibited in the Salon of 1894,
was a gem in steel, ivory, and
gold ; and his silver bust of
Dagnan the painter, in last
year's Salon, if mannered, was
still a work of great power, for,
despite his subtlety, Dampt is
an artist of strength and in-
tensity. His bronze, a cire
perdue, of M. Aman-Jean, has
remarkable breadth of touch.
He has combined in one
piece of furniture a vitritie, a
bookcase, and a box for en-
gravings. It is very plain in
construction, its only richness
consisting in its beautifully
calculated proportions; for
sculptor though he is, he has
resisted the temptation to
ornament it with decorative
designs. Every detail, even
the minutest, has its value,
each having been thought out
and executed by the artist
himself. By an ingenious
mechanical contrivance he
avoids the customary overlap-
ping of the windows in the
vitrine, which meet exactly
when closed ; and the handles
of the drawers, like that which
opens the engraving case, are
bookcase by jean dampt °f wrought-iron, forged with
wall-hanging by i-'kux aubert his own hands. The frame-
work is oak, with pinewood
used motif. The same remark applies to his bor- panels, ornamented only by their knots and natural
denngs and embroideries, the designs of which are grain, with just a slight violet tinting. At the next
very happily adapted to the requirements of the Salon of the Champ-de-Mars there will be shown a
joining and stitching. child's chair of most charming and delicate con-
M. Jean Dampt is one of our most remarkable struction, designed and executed entirely by M.
sculptors. He has the sentiment of the artists of Dampt.
the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, together M. Charles Plumet is an architect, and the furni-
with their delicacy, their scrupulously careful work- ture exhibited by him recently in the Rue Cau-
manship and regard for effect ; and like them martin gave clear evidence of this. I am far from
he delights in studied elegance and in the bold disliking it on this account; on the contrary,
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combination of rare materials.
A craftsman of the first rank,
he carves in wood and marble
and ivory, and works on metals
too. He is, moreover, a skil-
ful enameller and blacksmith.
His group, La Fee Melusine
et le Chevalier Raytnondin, ex-
hibited in the Salon of 1894,
was a gem in steel, ivory, and
gold ; and his silver bust of
Dagnan the painter, in last
year's Salon, if mannered, was
still a work of great power, for,
despite his subtlety, Dampt is
an artist of strength and in-
tensity. His bronze, a cire
perdue, of M. Aman-Jean, has
remarkable breadth of touch.
He has combined in one
piece of furniture a vitritie, a
bookcase, and a box for en-
gravings. It is very plain in
construction, its only richness
consisting in its beautifully
calculated proportions; for
sculptor though he is, he has
resisted the temptation to
ornament it with decorative
designs. Every detail, even
the minutest, has its value,
each having been thought out
and executed by the artist
himself. By an ingenious
mechanical contrivance he
avoids the customary overlap-
ping of the windows in the
vitrine, which meet exactly
when closed ; and the handles
of the drawers, like that which
opens the engraving case, are
bookcase by jean dampt °f wrought-iron, forged with
wall-hanging by i-'kux aubert his own hands. The frame-
work is oak, with pinewood
used motif. The same remark applies to his bor- panels, ornamented only by their knots and natural
denngs and embroideries, the designs of which are grain, with just a slight violet tinting. At the next
very happily adapted to the requirements of the Salon of the Champ-de-Mars there will be shown a
joining and stitching. child's chair of most charming and delicate con-
M. Jean Dampt is one of our most remarkable struction, designed and executed entirely by M.
sculptors. He has the sentiment of the artists of Dampt.
the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, together M. Charles Plumet is an architect, and the furni-
with their delicacy, their scrupulously careful work- ture exhibited by him recently in the Rue Cau-
manship and regard for effect ; and like them martin gave clear evidence of this. I am far from
he delights in studied elegance and in the bold disliking it on this account; on the contrary,
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