Studio: international art (11.1897)

Decorative Art at the Champ dc Mars

designed by M. Aubert.
And close by is a folding
bookcase, also by M.
Plumet. The best are the
dressing - table and the
chair, for these show the
artist's aims in the direc-
tion of a definite style, ' W&ftiifo ................ . ........J

One is glad to notice that
M. Plumet is gradually '\
freeing himself from cer-
tain narrow and hampering

ideas, and is striving more mW

and greater breadth and I

The bookcase, despite the || |

novelty in the arrangement
of the doors in the upper j
portion, appears wanting

in unity. The detail, how- (i -' M

ever, is charming, and the ~Ar,TT,

' &' . WRITING-TABLE BY T. SELMERSHEIM

woodwork reaches a high
degree of perfection.

M. Tony Selmersheim is full of ingenious original in form; and his Drawing-room chair, an

ideas. His Orange-wood tea-table, with glass panels, adaptation of an Empire model, is most har-

is thoroughly successful; his Tea-table is most moniously shaped and full of happy bits of detail.

DRESSING-TABLE, SCREEN AND CHAIR

BY CHARLES PLUMET. * EMBROIDERIES BY FELIX AUBERT

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