THIS "DÉMI-LUNE" FIREPLACE MANTEL IS LISTED IN BOTH ITS "NATURAL" SECTION (I.E., THE LOUIS XVI CATEGORY) AND THE DECO SECTION.
HOW COME, YOU MAY ASK!?
THE FACT IS THAT EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS FROM 1920 TO 1940 COPIED VERBATIM THE MINIMALIST ARCHITECTURE OF THIS NEOCLASSICAL FIREPLACE MODEL TO MAKE ART DECO FIREPLACES.
IT WILL BE EASY FOR YOU TO SEE MY ASSERTION BY VISITING THE DECO SECTION OF THIS VERY SITE.
TO CLOSE THE "STYLISTIC "TOPIC, WE MUST SAY THAT THE ELEGANT DEMI-LUNE PRESENTED HERE BELONGS TO STYLISM AND TO THE NAPOLEON III PERIOD, AN ERA WHICH, LACKING ITS OWN DISTINCTIVE STYLISTIC PERSONALITY, WAS DOMINATED BY THE LOUIS XVI STYLE.
INDEED, MA LIKES TO SAY THAT PERHAPS THE ONLY REAL NOVELTY OF THE NAPOLEON III PERIOD IN TERMS OF STYLE IS REPRESENTED BY OUR "HALF-MOON" MODEL ON ACCOUNT OF ITS SHOWING ITSELF EVEN TO THOSE WHO REACHED IT FROM THE SIDE ("VISION" UNTIL THEN RESERVED ONLY FOR LOUIS XV FIREPLACES).
RETURNING TO ITS ENLISTMENT IN THE ART DECO FAMILY OF OUR SITE, I FIND IT RIGHT, INDEED, MORE THAN RIGHT, SINCE ITS “GEOMETRIC CURVES” (NOT AN OXYMORON, THE QUARTER CIRCLE IS YES A CURVE BUT MADE WITH THE GEOMETRIC COMPASS!!) THUS HAVE A CHANCE TO FIND THEIR HISTORICAL PLACE.
IN ESSENCE, THE DEMI-LUNE FIREPLACE, WHICH IN THE NAPOLEON III PERIOD WAS TREATED AS A “FAMILLE” OR A BASTARD BORN FOR A FREAK OF NATURE, IN THE DECO PERIOD IS ...SANCTIFIED!!!
PERFECT PRESERVATION, 1860-80S PERIOD, PARISIAN PROVENANCE.
PRESENTED HERE IN THE CONDITION WE FOUND IT (I WAS IN A HURRY TO SHOW IT TO YOU, FOR VARIOUS REASONS WHICH, PERHAPS, I WILL DISCUSS WITH THE POSSIBLE BUYER), WITHOUT ANY MAKEUP EXCEPT A GOOD CLEANING WITH NEUTRAL SOAP, IT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE RESTORED AND WAXED BEFORE DELIVERY AND AT OUR EXPENSE.
