pomp apartment: art deco

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.. "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. " <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242">(here)</a> <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> Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior by Sarah Schleuning, Jeremy Aynsley 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. Am I naive to still desire this? - David John "Jacques-mile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: 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." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242"> </a> <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> "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." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242">(text taken from here)</a> ---------------- -----------------

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.. "the vivid gouache and watercolor depictions of interior spaces—complete with coordinated furniture, carpets, fabrics, and decorat...

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Pierre Lagrain 1889-1929.

"There were always golden rocks to throw At those who admit defeat too late Those were our times, those were our times" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61BVv6pLtw"> - Beirut</a> <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6026/5912722830_6a661f7f5c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6026/5912722830_6a661f7f5c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 650px; height: 650px;" /></a> <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6053/5912140943_9de11cd754_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6053/5912140943_9de11cd754_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 651px; height: 480px;" /></a> "The times we had Oh, when the wind would blow with rain and snow Were not all bad We put our feet just where they had, had to go, Never to go...." 2 side tables + stools. (top image by Pierre Lagrain, 2nd image in the style.) "Pierre Legrain’s name cannot be dissociated from the rebirth of modern bookbinding. Needless to say, it must be remembered that it was at the instigation of Jacques Doucet that the draftsman and designer unexpectedly found himself engaged in the art of bookbinding. Other than the diversity of his gifts, his culture and his avant-garde spirit nothing seemed to have prepared him for this undertaking. Pierre Legrain’s décors are almost always abstract and linear, with the letters of his book titles often serving as the ornamental motif. But notwithstanding their appearance of freedom, his compositions are conceived with an architectural rigor. Abandoning the customary browns, reds and greens that prevailed in bookbinding, Legrain employed leather as well as unexpected materials with unusual, light tones whose delicate, refined harmonies complemented the purity of his rhythms. His work was a stunning success and whilst the adventure lasted only a dozen years, Legrain left a decisive mark on the art of bookbinding. His influence continues to persist. Moreover, his activities as a decorator cannot be forgotten. At the same time he was working for Jacques Doucet, Jeanne Tacharp commissioned Legrain to refurbish her Paris home and her villa in La Celle-Saint-Cloud. Everything from the doorlocks and lighting, to the furniture, silverware and even the garden revealed the design of a book binder; the leather representing grass and the mosaics in flowers. All of it had been created by Legrain." (biographical text taken <a href="http://willy-huybrechts-gallery.com/artists/pierre-legrain/pierre-legrain-biograhy">from here)</a> ----------------------------- <a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5319/5912700924_01e0e2511f_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> </a>

Pierre Lagrain 1889-1929.

"There were always golden rocks to throw At those who admit defeat too late Those were our times, those were our times " - Beirut...

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Pierre Lagrain 1889-1929.

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