DOI issue:
No. 393 (December 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0394
PARIS
PART OF A GATE IN WROUGHT
LEAD. BY N. IMENITOFF
(Paris Internat. Exhn.)
PARIS,—When this issue appears, the
International Exhibition of Decora-
tive Art will have been closed for a
month. It has undoubtedly been a sue-
cess, and many exhibitors who formerly
hung back are now among those who
are asking for a re-opening next spring.
They argue, not without good reason,
that it seems a pity to demolish note-
worthy buildings which were expensive
to erect; that the expenses of installation
would be lessened by being spread over
two years ; and that many who hesitated
this spring would be only too anxious to
come in next. They point out also that
Wembley's second year was more suc-
cessful than the first. It is unlikely, how-
ever, that these arguments will prevail,
for there are grave objections on the score
of finance, and it has to be taken into
account that the City of Paris, which came
to an arrangement with the State organisers
of the exhibition to give up certain quarters
thereto, now wishes to re-open these
quarters for their normal purpose. Though
it is not likely that the exhibition will be
388
continued next year, there is a strong feel-
ing that certain pavilions (notably that of
Indo-China) should be preserved, and that
M. Marrast's delightful garden on the
Cours-la-Reine should remain. At any rate
there will be an aftermath in the creation of
a permanent exhibition gallery at the Quai
d'Orsay. a a a 0 a
It must be admitted that the ex-
hibition has met with brilliant success, and
that immediate results are to be looked for
from the public's ready acceptance of the
wares offered to it. One may remark, for
example, the magnificent success of the
metalwork. Itisnowsome twenty-five years
since Emile Robert made the first efforts to
revive this art, which, after being so well
practised in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, had fallen into a state of mere
copying. But to-day we may rejoice at a
wonderfulburgeoning,duetothe labour and
intellectof such men as EdgarBrandt,S2;abo
and Piquet, as well as of some great firms like
Borderel,Vinant, Bagnes. Some of this fine
metalwork we reproduce. M. Valotaire.
WROUGHT-IRON TRADEMARK
SIGN FOR FOURRURES MAX
BY E.BRANDT. (Paris Internat.
Exhn. By courtesy of Messrs.
Fourrures Max, Place de la
Bourse, Paris)
PART OF A GATE IN WROUGHT
LEAD. BY N. IMENITOFF
(Paris Internat. Exhn.)
PARIS,—When this issue appears, the
International Exhibition of Decora-
tive Art will have been closed for a
month. It has undoubtedly been a sue-
cess, and many exhibitors who formerly
hung back are now among those who
are asking for a re-opening next spring.
They argue, not without good reason,
that it seems a pity to demolish note-
worthy buildings which were expensive
to erect; that the expenses of installation
would be lessened by being spread over
two years ; and that many who hesitated
this spring would be only too anxious to
come in next. They point out also that
Wembley's second year was more suc-
cessful than the first. It is unlikely, how-
ever, that these arguments will prevail,
for there are grave objections on the score
of finance, and it has to be taken into
account that the City of Paris, which came
to an arrangement with the State organisers
of the exhibition to give up certain quarters
thereto, now wishes to re-open these
quarters for their normal purpose. Though
it is not likely that the exhibition will be
388
continued next year, there is a strong feel-
ing that certain pavilions (notably that of
Indo-China) should be preserved, and that
M. Marrast's delightful garden on the
Cours-la-Reine should remain. At any rate
there will be an aftermath in the creation of
a permanent exhibition gallery at the Quai
d'Orsay. a a a 0 a
It must be admitted that the ex-
hibition has met with brilliant success, and
that immediate results are to be looked for
from the public's ready acceptance of the
wares offered to it. One may remark, for
example, the magnificent success of the
metalwork. Itisnowsome twenty-five years
since Emile Robert made the first efforts to
revive this art, which, after being so well
practised in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, had fallen into a state of mere
copying. But to-day we may rejoice at a
wonderfulburgeoning,duetothe labour and
intellectof such men as EdgarBrandt,S2;abo
and Piquet, as well as of some great firms like
Borderel,Vinant, Bagnes. Some of this fine
metalwork we reproduce. M. Valotaire.
WROUGHT-IRON TRADEMARK
SIGN FOR FOURRURES MAX
BY E.BRANDT. (Paris Internat.
Exhn. By courtesy of Messrs.
Fourrures Max, Place de la
Bourse, Paris)