framework of its furniture, the architecture of the vessel, and their precise destination, Nancy claimed to clothe them their own way with a personal ornamentation. Suddenly abandoning to enjoy in peace the benefits of imitation, our designers, our potters, glassmakers, enamellers, cabinetmakers, goldsmiths, skinners, inlayers, Lorraine sculptors, have successively, over thirty years, moved away willy-nilly of imitation of ancient styles with a new principle, the one of the scientific observation of live models.
One therefore studied as both naturalists, as decorators, and industrial designer of colourful clothes which, in nature, envelop all beings because of a specific utility particular to each of them.
It was concluded for the benefit of our homes, with new effects, in harmony with the vast ambient coherence. Attractiveness of the plant has not stopped with the elegant stylisations that the late 19th century seemed to solely reap from nature to pay tribute to the formulas of the 16th century.
From Lorraine flora, we have realised applications for our trade. We have sought to deduce from nature the methods, the elements, and the specific characteristics to create a modern decoration style, a coloured coating of plastic objects and their modern uses.
We certainly do not claim to have succeeded, but at least we will have tried to demonstrate, by this time of confusion, the principles that distinguish other recent attempts from our logical French style directly inspired by natural materials.
This mode, according to common sense, to tradition and nature has significant advantages. It makes available to the ornaments composer, to the art worker, the key to these free museums of living decor, flora, wildlife confiscated by the academies. Instead of laboriously referring to older models that are often only copies of copies, alterations of brilliant adaptations made by the old masters from natural varieties, art modeller goes right to the real and vivid acanthus, or returns to the dandelion of popular images of the 14th century.
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