Marty, Charles Martin, Paul Iribe and Lucien Vogel represented the ‘modern exponents of elegance and refinement’. The impressive list of men that included Bernard Boutet de Monvel, Pierre Brissaud, Georges Lepape, George Barbier and Jean Besnard, A. In the anonymously penned article the author describes a list of young artists, dubbed the ‘ Beau Brummels of art’, who set out to move beyond the traditional confines of salon art into the mysterious world of interior design, furniture and fashion. Thus began an article on the so-called Beau Brummells of Parisian art less than two weeks before the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand that would precipitate World War I. The Salons, of worldwide interest for so many generations, have ceased to please, and the vernissage, once crowded to suffocation, is no longer fashionable, for painters and sculptors have turned their talents into the new channels of decoration and the mysterious art of personal adornment. Art has done many strange things in Paris, but at the present moment it is indulging in a fantasy stranger than usual.
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