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[peter fels]

We agree of course.
When i saw such work in Europe ( why are those cars honking so furiously when i'm trying to take a picture?),
I couldn't help but mourn all the splendid iron that must have been scrapped out for WW2...and the anvils....and the tooling...sigh


On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:

> 
> PF wrote:
> 
>> I went snuffling through a string of links form your post Mike,
>> and ran into this little droolworthy site.
>> http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/belgium/brussels/index.html
> 
> Yeah, cool.  I love that kind of stuff.  In some cases I'm just
> overwhelmed -- imagine commuting every day on the Paris Metro from one
> of Hector Guimard's stations.  In other cases, I'm afraid the
> execution of Art Nouveau designs suffers from the same defect that a
> lot of large-scale ironwork does: Knocks your eyes out at a 100 feet,
> even at 30 feet, but then turns out not to very much exploit the
> plasticity/malleability of iron when you get up close.  Turns out to
> be a sort of pen & ink line drawing -- definitely cool and elegant but
> not quite making it because it doesn't exploit the central mystique of
> forged iron.
> 
> Too bad "they" wouldn't let the guy who did those web pages take
> photos inside Horta's house & studio.  In the Dover book Art Nouveau
> Decorative Ironwork there are a few plates showing Horta's work "in a
> town house, Brussels".  I wonder if that's inside Horta's own house
> and they're just being coy somehow.  (Some other plates of interior
> work mention the street address of the house.)
> 
> 
> Thanks for the pointer,
> - Mike
> 
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