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SENT TO FRANTZ JOURDAIN, A LEADING ARCHITECT OF ART NOUVEAU.

L’appartement français à la fin du XIXe siècle

1880341 x 472 mm

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SENT TO THE ARCHITECT FRANZ JOURDAIN.

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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, one of the leading figures of Art Nouveau architecture:

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

A critic for several provincial newspapers, Frantz Jourdain defended the "new style" in art, praising the work of Rodin, Cézanne and Monet. Trained at the Daumet studio, Jourdain won medals at the Universal Exhibitions of 1882 and 1889. A member of the provisional committee of the Société du nouveau Paris, he was one of the founders and president of the Salon d'automne and the first president of the Société des architectes modernes. His landmark Art Nouveau designs include the former luxury Samaritaine shop on Boulevard des Capucines (in collaboration with Georges Bourneuf) and the Samaritaine Pont-Neuf. A close friend of Zola, he designed his funeral monument at Montmartre cemetery.

Prestigious provenance.

Dourdan,E. Thézard fils,Undated [1880].In-f,341 x 472 mm,10 pp. - [1] f. - 40 pl. .

Preserved in a blue cloth-backed hardback publisher's folder with ribbon closure. Mottling on the upper cover. Spine neatly rebound.

Bio

Ernest Foussier

(Tours: 1859 - Paris: 1917)

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