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Item Number: 129536
Title: Les secrets de la laque française. Le vernis Martin
Author: Forray-Carliter, Anne ; Monika Kopplin
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782916914473
Description: Paris: Les Arts Decoratifs, 2014. 30cm., hardcover, 320pp., 450 illus., most in color. French text. Summary: Les Arts Décoratifs pays Tribute to the 18th Century. By devoting a major exhibition to the secrets of French lacquer, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is highlighting the widespread passion for a technique that became the epitome of luxury and refinement. Towards the end of the 17th century the increasingly high cost of lacquer production in Japan and the inferior quality of lacquer imported from China prompted Europeans to seek to master this technique themselves. The study of lacquer enabled skilful artisans in Germany, England, Holland and France to recreate its deep, velvety sheen and masterfully imitate oriental lacquers. In Paris, a host of gilder- varnishers’ workshops sprang up in the Saint-Antoine quarter alongside those of the cabinetmakers and joiners already established there, thereby linking them with the furniture industry from the outset. Amongst the most famous were those of the Martin brothers, whose name became associated with their technique then all the lacquer produced in France. One of the specificities of French lacquer was the introduction of new colours and its use on all kinds of materials and objects. Ranging from the most imposing to the most discreet, furniture, panelling, objets, caskets, horse-drawn carriages and sleighs trace the history of a passion shared by Parisians and a pan-European clientele and transcending the passion for all things Chinese for which it originally catered. The particular question of Vernis Martin, a term for lacquer used only by the French, poses numerous questions, which for the first time have been given answers based on numerous studies and examples. Conceived and produced in collaboration with the Lackkunst Museum in Münster, this exhibition brings together some 300 objects.
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