DOI Heft:
Nr. 75 (June 1899)
DOI Artikel:A modern bath-room designed by E. M. Simas
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0050
E. M. Simas Decorations for a Bath-Room
sides with white faience, with small openwork shelves
of copper, nickelled inside, wherein the sponges can
be placed, that the drippings may fall into a little
basin of the same metal placed on the floor.
Above, to right and left and either side of a
mirror, is placed a little 'etagere, with a drawer.
The door admitting to the bath-room is formed
of six very Darrow sycamore panels, framed in
alder-wood, with plaques and lock, &c., in copper,
from the designs of Alexandre Charpentier.
From these sufficiently minute details the
reader may form a general idea of the effect of
this room. “ Simple yet rich ” is its most adequate
description. There is no attempt at excessive
coloration ; no surplusage of elaborate ornament.
Those portions which are highly decorated are
justly so treated by virtue of the important place
they hold in the general scheme. M. Simas has
rightly ornamented the basin in bright and gorgeous
tones, for it is the centrepiece of the entire work,
and demands chief attention. Notable, too, is his
delicate and artistic treatment of the mosaic floor-
ing, which is based on the simplest and most
natural lines—the only fertile source of decorative
art. Nothing more delightful or more refreshing
can be imagined than this floral carpet.
Considering the perfect harmony of his scheme
it is greatly to be regretted, as has already been
suggested, that M. Simas should have found it im-
possible to decorate the niche himself. Moreover,
the dressing-table seems to have just missed per-
fection. It is too much a piece of furniture apart—
somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the decora-
tive scheme. Still, this is but a very slight criticism to
make, and must not be considered to detract in any
sensible degree from the general merit of the work.
M. Simas is about to decorate a music-room for
M. Laurens, and we therefore hope to return to him
and to his work very shortly, for he is certainly one
of the most gifted and imaginative of modern
French decorative artists.
In conclusion mention should be made of the
fact that all the woodwork in the bath-room was
executed by M. Policard, and all the pottery by
the Sarreguemines Manufactory. Both are satisfac-
tory in every way.
DESIGN FOR MOSAIC FLOOR
36
BY E. M. SIMAS
sides with white faience, with small openwork shelves
of copper, nickelled inside, wherein the sponges can
be placed, that the drippings may fall into a little
basin of the same metal placed on the floor.
Above, to right and left and either side of a
mirror, is placed a little 'etagere, with a drawer.
The door admitting to the bath-room is formed
of six very Darrow sycamore panels, framed in
alder-wood, with plaques and lock, &c., in copper,
from the designs of Alexandre Charpentier.
From these sufficiently minute details the
reader may form a general idea of the effect of
this room. “ Simple yet rich ” is its most adequate
description. There is no attempt at excessive
coloration ; no surplusage of elaborate ornament.
Those portions which are highly decorated are
justly so treated by virtue of the important place
they hold in the general scheme. M. Simas has
rightly ornamented the basin in bright and gorgeous
tones, for it is the centrepiece of the entire work,
and demands chief attention. Notable, too, is his
delicate and artistic treatment of the mosaic floor-
ing, which is based on the simplest and most
natural lines—the only fertile source of decorative
art. Nothing more delightful or more refreshing
can be imagined than this floral carpet.
Considering the perfect harmony of his scheme
it is greatly to be regretted, as has already been
suggested, that M. Simas should have found it im-
possible to decorate the niche himself. Moreover,
the dressing-table seems to have just missed per-
fection. It is too much a piece of furniture apart—
somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the decora-
tive scheme. Still, this is but a very slight criticism to
make, and must not be considered to detract in any
sensible degree from the general merit of the work.
M. Simas is about to decorate a music-room for
M. Laurens, and we therefore hope to return to him
and to his work very shortly, for he is certainly one
of the most gifted and imaginative of modern
French decorative artists.
In conclusion mention should be made of the
fact that all the woodwork in the bath-room was
executed by M. Policard, and all the pottery by
the Sarreguemines Manufactory. Both are satisfac-
tory in every way.
DESIGN FOR MOSAIC FLOOR
36
BY E. M. SIMAS