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ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE EDITION of this collection of plates, a 19th-century interior design project for a French flat.

 At the time this book was written, the fashion was for old-fashioned styles, which was a source of concern to the author:

[The idea of a new art will take a long time to get into the heads of those who make us work. Talk today with the most eminent minds in literature, painting and sculpture, and you will find them firmly convinced that there is only the old, and that anything we can attempt will never come close to it (p.5).

This did not prevent him from offering, in addition to pieces in the Louis XIII, Louis IV, Directoire, Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, a bathroom decorated "in a new form".

A teacher at the Chambre Syndicale des Tapissiers Décorateurs, Ernest Foussier was commissioned by the Vanderbilt family to decorate their house on Avenue Foch. A precursor of Art Deco, he won a medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER TO FRANZ JOURDAIN, :

To the excellent critic and master writer Frantz Jourdain.
Respectfully
Foussier