The Paris Salons
1'OTTERY-WARE BY JOOST THOOFT AND LABOUCHERE
(See article on the Turin Exhibition)
notably the Fontaine d'amour by M. Emile Derre, of a bazaar than of anything else. The more
and the two oxidised casts by Mme. Berthe pleasure then to find in this neighbourhood some
Giradet, L'enfant malade and Benediction de works by Lalique, full as ever of imagination and
Vdieule, two charmingly human works, which, amid fancy, to come across the admirable show-cases of
all the surrounding superficiality and convention, T. Laumonnerie, the jewellery of G. Fouquet and
appeal to one irresistibly by reason of their strength Desrosiers and the brothers Falize, whose Vase du
and honesty. • Saint-Graal is, in its sumptuous perfection, one of
A like confusion prevails in the " Objets d'art" the most remarkable things of the kind produced
section, wherein the manufacturer triumphs with of recent years. There are many other works that
unpleasant completeness, at the expense of the might be mentioned did the space at my disposal
creator of the works displayed. permit.
The Artistes Francais have committed the great Such are the two Salons : neither better nor
fault of admitting far too large a number of " pro- worse than those which have preceded them in
ducers" of this sort, the result being that this former years.
portion of the exhibition has more the appearance Gabriel Mourey.
1'OTTERY-WARE BY JOOST THOOFT AND LABOUCHERE
(See article on the Turin Exhibition)
notably the Fontaine d'amour by M. Emile Derre, of a bazaar than of anything else. The more
and the two oxidised casts by Mme. Berthe pleasure then to find in this neighbourhood some
Giradet, L'enfant malade and Benediction de works by Lalique, full as ever of imagination and
Vdieule, two charmingly human works, which, amid fancy, to come across the admirable show-cases of
all the surrounding superficiality and convention, T. Laumonnerie, the jewellery of G. Fouquet and
appeal to one irresistibly by reason of their strength Desrosiers and the brothers Falize, whose Vase du
and honesty. • Saint-Graal is, in its sumptuous perfection, one of
A like confusion prevails in the " Objets d'art" the most remarkable things of the kind produced
section, wherein the manufacturer triumphs with of recent years. There are many other works that
unpleasant completeness, at the expense of the might be mentioned did the space at my disposal
creator of the works displayed. permit.
The Artistes Francais have committed the great Such are the two Salons : neither better nor
fault of admitting far too large a number of " pro- worse than those which have preceded them in
ducers" of this sort, the result being that this former years.
portion of the exhibition has more the appearance Gabriel Mourey.