Studio: international art (20.1900)

Round the Exhibition

STOOL BY E. COLONNA

of six apartments—a vestibule, a dining-room, a
drawing-room, a dressing-room, a bedroom and a
boudoir.

M. Gaillard is responsible for the vestibule. A
mosaic of bold design, strictly appropriate to the
shape and the arrangement of the room, covers
the floor • the walls are hung with draperies in
bold pink, and are decorated with a frieze au
pochoir. A huge piece of furniture in polished
walnut, with looking-glasses tier above tier, flanked
by clothes-pegs right and left, fills the base of the
apartment, the pattern of the mosaic marking its
place.

The walls of the dining-room, which is also
M. Gaillard's work, are covered to a third of their
height with a panelled wainscoting in polished
walnut, with copper applique, surmounted by a
powerful piece of painted decoration by M. Jose-
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Maria Sert, running all round the woodwork. This
decoration is, indeed, overpowering, considering
the size and the height of the rQom ; but the work
itself, with its grey and black tones, slightly relieved
by touches of dull yellow, is quite beautiful, how-
ever imperfectly it may be adapted to its surround-
ings. The rest of the furniture—a large sideboard,
with four doors, a cupboard, a table, chairs and
armchairs—is designed strongly, yet with grace.
The ornamentation is but slight, and where it is
employed one feels that it has been well and
appropriately distributed.

From the dining-room we pass into the drawing-
room, furnished by M. E. Colonna. It is really a.
drawing-room—a French salon in the fullest sense
of the word, the room in which we receive our
guests, not the piece wherein we live ; yet one longs
to live there, so fascinating, so comfortable is its

MUSIC CABINET BY E. COLONNA