Last week was one of those weeks were no matter how hard I tried to make things work correctly they seemed to come out incorrect. I'm glad the week is over. I'm ready to start fresh with new solutions to a problem I've had since taking on this adventure. More of that when things are completely hammered out.
In the meantime I managed to find the photographs I thought were lost of my last visit to the Decorative Arts Museum here in Paris.
The pieces above and below were my favorites of the dinnerware I came across in the museum. Why you wonder, well mainly because I have thing for art that's been influenced by the eastern world. I love the detail and pattern involved. It is represented so differently than the way the we and the Europeans have done it and continue to do it to this day.
What I love so much about these pieces is how the cultures are literally overlapping one another. They are truly timeless, with a little modification here and there. I personally am not a fish fan, in terms of icons in my designs and would use another figure or none at all. I still find them wonderful and will keep them in the back of my head for something in the future.
They were both designed and I believe painted by Albert Louis Dammouse who was around between 1848 and 1926.
Oh, how I wish this light fixture was as beautiful in the photograph as it was in person. The shades are different colored flowers, red, yellow and green. Completely and totally beautiful. Just growing right out of the ceiling.Slightly better but sorry not great view of the table. The room and it's furniture were designed by Nancy Bruxelles in 1904. The beginning of the new movements in art and design. You can begin to see how important craftsmanship is to the design of all these objects. Which was the fundamental believe to the Arts and Crafts movement. Ah and the kick off to all that followed..
