Report of the Commissioner-General for the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900, February 29, 1901 Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... Jersey (Mr. Zinim being a pupil of Mr. Bitter). One group represented '"inspiration" and pertained perhaps more particularly to the art of the potter; the other illustrated the art of the metil worker. These groups, together with the S. Doc. 232, pt 2 20 large draperies of the arches and the paintings above alluded to, gave a graceful effect and artistic finish to the entrances and relieved them from severity. Each of the curtains used was chosen to harmonize with the particular decorative paintings referred to, the curtains facing England blending with Herter's painting quietly and admirably--the color being of soft old ivory tone with passementerie trimmings and borders that contained gold--while the curtains of the arch facing Germany were in light toned green velour, also trimmed and edged with gold borders and passementerie, harmonizing particularly well with the mural painting of Koopman. The interior of the space was quartered by an aisle (running under the gallery) that crossed the main aisle, but quite, out of the center, which was an unhappy condition in the allotment of this space by the French administration. This crossing of aisles directly under the gallery, where the light was at times undesirable, suggested an inclosed construction, which was executed in an octagonal form and in which four main panels were provided for exhibits of leaded glass windows. The intersecting aisles were arched by architectural and decorative trims that gave the effect of finished entrances which were draped with red velour portieres trimmed with passementerie in old gold (furnished by Alavoine & Co., of New York). These portieres to the four entrances, with the ornamental entrances and the framing of the leaded glass, together with the paneled ceili...