DOI Heft:
No. 60 (March, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Mourey, Gabriel: Decorative art in Paris: the exhibition of "The Six"
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0104
Decorative Art in Paris
embroidered silk borderings designed by e. moreau-nelaton, EXECUTED by madame moreau-nelaton
c<-3( - k Kv. N frame by charles plumet
embroidered panel designed by e. moreau-
nelaton am) executed by madame
MOREAU-NELATON
88
young, and there is good reason for holding the
highest hopes for his future. Among the illuminat-
ing apparatus in copper and bronze exhibited by
him in the Rue Caumartin, the candlesticks are
particularly successful. Nothing could be more
unpretentious or more practical, and at the same
time more charming. This simple flower-stalk,
spreading out into the corolla of a flower, in which
the candle is placed, seems, to my eyes, to have some
of the beauty seen in certain Japanese work ; it is so
natural, so unstudied, so spontaneous, so obviously
sprung from the fingers of the artist. Equally
effective is his candle bracket in bronze oxidised in
dull green. This is simply a cluster of plain stems,
unchased and devoid of all twisting, which meet
against the wall.
He also exhibits other candlesticks, an electric
light chandelier, an inkstand, an electric light
bracket, and an oil-lamp—all conceived and
executed in the same free, unaffected manner,
strictly adapted to the purposes for which they are
designed, and presenting one and all a quite
exceptionally harmonious arrangement of lines.
M. Selmersheim is, indeed, an artist who knows
how to work in metal. He has great and original
capacity, and as he is on the right road, all that
remains for him is to go straight ahead, and then
we may count on having a supply of beautiful
works of applied art.
Exhibitions of this varied and interesting nature
are rare in Paris. True it is that industrial art is
embroidered silk borderings designed by e. moreau-nelaton, EXECUTED by madame moreau-nelaton
c<-3( - k Kv. N frame by charles plumet
embroidered panel designed by e. moreau-
nelaton am) executed by madame
MOREAU-NELATON
88
young, and there is good reason for holding the
highest hopes for his future. Among the illuminat-
ing apparatus in copper and bronze exhibited by
him in the Rue Caumartin, the candlesticks are
particularly successful. Nothing could be more
unpretentious or more practical, and at the same
time more charming. This simple flower-stalk,
spreading out into the corolla of a flower, in which
the candle is placed, seems, to my eyes, to have some
of the beauty seen in certain Japanese work ; it is so
natural, so unstudied, so spontaneous, so obviously
sprung from the fingers of the artist. Equally
effective is his candle bracket in bronze oxidised in
dull green. This is simply a cluster of plain stems,
unchased and devoid of all twisting, which meet
against the wall.
He also exhibits other candlesticks, an electric
light chandelier, an inkstand, an electric light
bracket, and an oil-lamp—all conceived and
executed in the same free, unaffected manner,
strictly adapted to the purposes for which they are
designed, and presenting one and all a quite
exceptionally harmonious arrangement of lines.
M. Selmersheim is, indeed, an artist who knows
how to work in metal. He has great and original
capacity, and as he is on the right road, all that
remains for him is to go straight ahead, and then
we may count on having a supply of beautiful
works of applied art.
Exhibitions of this varied and interesting nature
are rare in Paris. True it is that industrial art is