Studio: international art (20.1900)

Round the Exhibition

with rich and harmonious trimmings, a huge
wardrobe, a table, chairs and fauteuils. The
high qualities shown in the furnishing of the
dining-room are again apparent here; but in
this room everything is soft, delicate and caress-
ing, without, however, any eccentricity or weak-
ness. And in these days, when extravagance
and over-elaboration are common, these are
points deserving of unreserved appreciation.

A semicircular passage leads from the bed-
room to the boudoir, the external partition being
filled with glasswork by M. de Feure. There
are four panels, with flowers and curious female
figures, the outlines being of simple lead-work.
The glass, it should be said, is coloured glass
and not painted. The tones are splendid, but
in no way gaudy, a fine effect being attained
by subtle combinations melting into the rarest
harmonies. The chief novelty consists in this
—that the parts of the wall enclosing the

CHAIR BY G. DE FEURE

CHAIR BY E. COLONNA

windows have been painted in a violet-blue
tone with red motifs.

M. de Feure also designed the boudoir itself,
which, I have no hesitation in saying, is the
thing that pleases me most; and, without dis-
paragement of M. de Feure's collaborators, I
should declare this to be the pick of the entire
building. Here, to my mind, is expressed
absolutely in its perfection the fanciful, novel,
independent, graceful spirit which pervades the
whole exhibition. Fully to appreciate the
value of this work one must bear in mind the
object aimed at by M, Bing, and carried out
by M. de Feure. It is simply this : to revive
the tradition of the graceful French furniture
of the eighteenth century, adapt it to modern

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