DOI Heft:
No.127 (October, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0086
Studio-Talk
wall taper by frantz jourdain
gisch for painting; of MM. Gustave Michel, Fix- In the last Salon M. Benouville exhibited a simple
Masseau, Camille Lefevre, Gasq, and Laporte- and sensible set of furniture for a workman's
Blairsy for sculpture; of MM. Lepere and Robbe dwelling. In the same section, too, one saw the
for engraving; and of MM. Plumet and Truchet wall-papers displayed by M. Frantz Jourdain and
for architecture. Also there are a few critics— M. Edouard Cousin. Two characteristic examples
MM. Rambosson, Sarradin, Huysmans, and Henri are reproduced here.
Frantz. The foreign artists' delegate is M. Gro- -
peano, 33 Rue Bayen, Paris. It is by no means out of place to insist on the
- talent of the artists I have just named. M. Jour-
Among the younger generation displaying de- dain has produced some lovely and life-like engrav-
corative art at the National Society of Fine Arts, ings in colour. The wall-papers are his first
several artists there are devoting themselves, with attempts in this branch of art, and he certainly
a good deal of determination and a
praiseworthy logic, to the rejuvenation
and the embellishment of the house. In
this branch of art we have too often seen
artists of high ability—men like Dampt,
or Lalique, or De Feure, or Theodore
Riviere, or Delaherche—create objects of
art so costly as to be accessible only to
the rare amateur. But people of modest
means have likewise a right to that which
is beautiful, and it is the artist's duty to
strive to procure for them beauty com-
bined with utility. It must be admitted
that there have been many meritorious
attempts in this direction during the last
few years For example, Felix Aubert
has created for the hotels of the Touring
Club de France an inexpensive apart-
ment to supersede the horrible rooms
to which one has hitherto been ac-
customed. Then again, under the ini-
tiative of Jean Lehor, the poet, there
is being founded a Society of Popular
Art, of which great things may be hoped. a study by mme. r. davids
69
wall taper by frantz jourdain
gisch for painting; of MM. Gustave Michel, Fix- In the last Salon M. Benouville exhibited a simple
Masseau, Camille Lefevre, Gasq, and Laporte- and sensible set of furniture for a workman's
Blairsy for sculpture; of MM. Lepere and Robbe dwelling. In the same section, too, one saw the
for engraving; and of MM. Plumet and Truchet wall-papers displayed by M. Frantz Jourdain and
for architecture. Also there are a few critics— M. Edouard Cousin. Two characteristic examples
MM. Rambosson, Sarradin, Huysmans, and Henri are reproduced here.
Frantz. The foreign artists' delegate is M. Gro- -
peano, 33 Rue Bayen, Paris. It is by no means out of place to insist on the
- talent of the artists I have just named. M. Jour-
Among the younger generation displaying de- dain has produced some lovely and life-like engrav-
corative art at the National Society of Fine Arts, ings in colour. The wall-papers are his first
several artists there are devoting themselves, with attempts in this branch of art, and he certainly
a good deal of determination and a
praiseworthy logic, to the rejuvenation
and the embellishment of the house. In
this branch of art we have too often seen
artists of high ability—men like Dampt,
or Lalique, or De Feure, or Theodore
Riviere, or Delaherche—create objects of
art so costly as to be accessible only to
the rare amateur. But people of modest
means have likewise a right to that which
is beautiful, and it is the artist's duty to
strive to procure for them beauty com-
bined with utility. It must be admitted
that there have been many meritorious
attempts in this direction during the last
few years For example, Felix Aubert
has created for the hotels of the Touring
Club de France an inexpensive apart-
ment to supersede the horrible rooms
to which one has hitherto been ac-
customed. Then again, under the ini-
tiative of Jean Lehor, the poet, there
is being founded a Society of Popular
Art, of which great things may be hoped. a study by mme. r. davids
69