Studio: international art (90.1925)

INTERIOR DECORATION AND FURNISHING AT PARIS

by a young artist, Jean Sczepkowski, most
original in design and execution, and one
of the most beautiful things in the whole
Exhibition. In the Swedish Pavilion and
sections, arrangements by Carl Horvik and
Carl Malmsten, C. Bergsten, Blomqvist
and Asplund, and the ante-room to the
Salle d'Honneur, decorated with maps of
a curious character by Olle Hjortzberg,
cast-iron work by C. Bergsten and Anna
Petrus. In the Danish sections, furnish-
ings, perhaps a little too bizarre, by C, B.
Hansen, Otto Meyer, J. Petersen ; and
in the Austrian section, furniture and
ensembles by that famous and original
artist, Josef Hoffmann, some of whose
bookbindingswe illustrated last November.

So far as the French section goes, our
readers are already familiar with the work
of J. Ruhlmann, Sue et Mare, Chareau,
Follot, Dufrene, Groult, Montagnac, F.

Nathan, Guillemard, Mme. Chauchet-
Guillere, T. and P. Selmersheim, and will
not therefore be in the least surprised when
I say that none of them has missed this
opportunity of appearing to best advantage.
In the Hotel d' un Collectionneur, fur-
nished by Ruhlmann, in the Museum of
Contemporary Art, built, furnished and
decorated by Sue et Mare, in the pavilions
of La Maitrise as in that of Pomone and
that of the Primavera Studio, in the rooms
of the French Embassy, arranged, decorated
and furnished by the Societe des Artistes
Decorateurs (where Chareau exhibits a
bookcase which is one of the most remark-
able works in the whole Exhibition), none
of these artists fails to come up to his usual
standard. All have displayed their best
gifts, with an enthusiasm and a spirit of
devotion to the common interest which
does them honour a a a a

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SWEDISH PAVILION, LIVING ROOM
DECORATIONS AND FURNITURE
BY CARL MALMSTEN, EXECUTED
BY THE NORDISKA COMPANIET

(Internat. Exhn. of Modern Decora-
tive and Industrial Arts, Paris)