M O D E R N E

<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">..</span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" ><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" ></span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"the vivid gouache and watercolor depictions of interior spaces—complete with coordinated furniture, carpets, fabrics, and decorative accessories—announced t</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">he dawn of a new era of French design</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> and set the standards of luxury and taste that still guide us today. "</span> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(here)</span></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6798358048_a526930ecd_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6798358048_a526930ecd_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 1044px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">by Sarah Schleuning, Jeremy Aynsley</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br /><br />Looking forward to a long weekend ahead, working on some drawings, and beginning to pull some books off the shelves, such as this one from late 2007. Before the days of the the computer, ideas were translated and shared with pen, ink, and paper for the client. A late afternoon meeting over tea perhaps, a conversation of color, and texture.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Am I naive to still desire this? </span></span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- David John</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"Jacques-mile Ruhlmann</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Pierre Chareau</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Robert Mallet-Stevens</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Charlotte Perriand</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Eileen Gray</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. Their use of sumptuous materials, rich jewel tones, intricate geometric patterns, and complex and varied textures has made this work a lasting favorite among interior designers, architects, and their clients. When it first appeared, the got moderne, or modern taste, was marketed through limited-edition portfolios containing unbound drawings, printed in full color using a traditional process called pochoir."</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6798360778_f8e97f1c8c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6798360778_f8e97f1c8c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 1012px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">Created in an era before color photography, the vivid gouache and watercolor depictions of interior spaces—complete with coordinated furniture, carpets, fabrics, and decorative accessories—announced the dawn of a new era of French design and set the standards of luxury and taste that still guide us today. Moderne presents the finest examples of this work in more than two hundred plates, selected by Sarah Schleuning, a curator of the Wolfsonian Museum, and faithfully reproduced to preserve their original color palettes. This sumptuous volume is comprehensive in scope, beginning with the early art moderne of Ruhlmann and concluding with the avant-garde work of Gray and Perriand."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242"><span style="font-style: italic;">(text taken from here)</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------</span><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span>

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