Mostly we spend our time looking at the paintings. But this time we spent rather more time looking at the art nouveau collection, mostly furniture, and featuring personal favorite, Hector Guimard.
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But first, a small collection from Antoni Gaudi; he didn't do much time in Paris,
methinks, but it was nice to see some of his work (mostly architecture, rather)
represented |
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Guimard is best known nowadays for this, his design of stations and graphics
for the Paris Metro, in the 1890s; but he did much else, as we saw in the Paris
1900 exhibition five years ago, and in doing art nouveau tours of Paris |
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| Guimard port-manteau |
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| And this incredible room |
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| Ditto |
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| Close-up of the basin |
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| Knocks me out: a banquette de fumoir, smoking bench, for a billiard parlor |
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| Basin, Francois-Rupert Carabin |
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| Guimard, Fanteuils |
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| Guimard, Glass |
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| Guimard, Vase et socle le jardin |
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Henri Husson, Adrian-Aurelian Hebrard, Coupe; must have
been 7 feet high |
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So I wandered innocently, if logically, into the next hall, that of the pre-Raphaelites,
and was confronted by this wonder: Jean Delville's School of Plato; the wisteria
and peacock are nice; I never knew that Plato had just 12 disciples...I wonder
which one is Aristotle |
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