Studio: international art (83.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

with their practical intelligence perceive
that in this economic war as in the war of
arms there must be conqueror and con-
quered, he insists that France must be
prepared, when the exhibition of 1924
opens its doors to the world, with some-
thing of greater economic importance than
a collection of more or less charming
u bibelots ” to show—she must have goods,
the quality of which will secure for them a
sale in the world’s markets♦ 0 0

The present state of French decorative

art was briefly reviewed in The Studio a
couple of years ago by Mons. Gabriel
Mourey, and the same able writer has dis-
cussed the subject at much greater length
in a handy volume, of which the second
edition was published at the close of last
year,* Up to the beginning of the present
century the old styles—Louis Quince,
Louis Seize, Empire, and so forth—held
undisputed sway, but with the dawn of the

* Essai sur VArt decoratif frangais moderne.
Librairie Ollendorff. 0000

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