DOI issue:
No. 390 (September 1925)
DOI article:Mourey, Gabriel: The Paris International Exhibition, 1925, [3]: Interior decoration and furnishing
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0161
INTERIOR DECORATION AND FURNISHING AT PARIS
INTERIOR OF THE CHRISTOFLE-
BACCARAT PAVILION. ARCHI-
TECT, GEORGES CHEVALIER;
DECORATIONS BY CHASSAING
(Internat. Exhn. of Modern Decora-
tive and Industrial Arts, Paris)
things, as we already see all the women
with bobbed or shingled hair and short
skirts, and all the men dressing alike ! 0
Interior decoration can be divided into
two types—that wherein a nation bases its
conception of decorative art on an almost
entire abolition of ethnic traditions, and
that of the peoples, who, while modernising
their decorative forms, remain deliberately
faithful to their national traditions. a
The Exhibition offers an excellent
demonstration of this. It appears quite
clearly that Sweden, Poland, Denmark,
England and Switzerland, however anxious
thay may be to be modern in their decora-
tive art, seek to do this without breaking
entirely with the past; while France,
Holland, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and
Belgium, up to a certain point, having
made a clean sweep of all the traditional
styles, are trying to create a modern style
which shall possess as much novelty as
possible. It should be understood that I
write in general terms, and there is no
question of an absolute rule admitting of
no exceptions. 0000
These considerations seem to me not
altogether-useless as indications for Studio
readers of the principal trend of the
Exhibition in furnishing and interior
decoration. It is impossible, in the space
at my disposal, to enumerate all the work
in this section which deserves commenda-
tion. I should be sorry, however, not to
mention a few of the chief examples. Such
are : the Salon d'Honneur in the Polish
Pavilion, decorated with the really de-
lightful mural paintings of Mme. Sophie
Stryjenska, the study and drawing room by
MM. A. Jastr^ebowski and J. Czajkowski,
and in the Polish section of the Invalides,
the decoration of a chapel in carved wood
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INTERIOR OF THE CHRISTOFLE-
BACCARAT PAVILION. ARCHI-
TECT, GEORGES CHEVALIER;
DECORATIONS BY CHASSAING
(Internat. Exhn. of Modern Decora-
tive and Industrial Arts, Paris)
things, as we already see all the women
with bobbed or shingled hair and short
skirts, and all the men dressing alike ! 0
Interior decoration can be divided into
two types—that wherein a nation bases its
conception of decorative art on an almost
entire abolition of ethnic traditions, and
that of the peoples, who, while modernising
their decorative forms, remain deliberately
faithful to their national traditions. a
The Exhibition offers an excellent
demonstration of this. It appears quite
clearly that Sweden, Poland, Denmark,
England and Switzerland, however anxious
thay may be to be modern in their decora-
tive art, seek to do this without breaking
entirely with the past; while France,
Holland, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and
Belgium, up to a certain point, having
made a clean sweep of all the traditional
styles, are trying to create a modern style
which shall possess as much novelty as
possible. It should be understood that I
write in general terms, and there is no
question of an absolute rule admitting of
no exceptions. 0000
These considerations seem to me not
altogether-useless as indications for Studio
readers of the principal trend of the
Exhibition in furnishing and interior
decoration. It is impossible, in the space
at my disposal, to enumerate all the work
in this section which deserves commenda-
tion. I should be sorry, however, not to
mention a few of the chief examples. Such
are : the Salon d'Honneur in the Polish
Pavilion, decorated with the really de-
lightful mural paintings of Mme. Sophie
Stryjenska, the study and drawing room by
MM. A. Jastr^ebowski and J. Czajkowski,
and in the Polish section of the Invalides,
the decoration of a chapel in carved wood
155