Studio: international art (78.1919)

FRENCH DECORATIVE ART

SIDEBOARD IN PAINTED
WOOD. BY M. E. DUFRENE

modern man—all-impatient, over-impa-
tient, perhaps, after swift realization and
immediate satisfaction, and so soon tired,
like the ancient, weary-eyed child he is, of
last night's playthings—of this craze for
originality and novelty in any case and at
any cost. But let us have done with
generalities, and throw a more objective
glance on a subject rich and striking in its
interest and suggestion. a a a
I referred just now to the merits of

our ensembliers; they are many and
various. Here is M. Maurice Dufrene,
possessed of rare gifts of grace and delicacy,
with what one may perhaps describe as a
sort of feminine sense of form and colour,
enabling him to realize harmonies of pecu-
liar charm. Here, too, M. Theodore
Lambert, who excels in bold, ingenious
experiment, in astonishingly happy com-
binations of the traditional and the imprevu,
and who has a real passion for the honesty

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