<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jaques Adnet's Mirror returns....</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Adnet saw himself as </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >"innovator and classicist,<br />an advocate for the tradition <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">that leads us into the future.</span>" </span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6163469490_f2d6c9a8b4_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6163469490_f2d6c9a8b4_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 683px; height: 735px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is there any mirror that could possibly compete with Jaques Adnet's 1950 leather mirror? </span> Before I even knew who <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfl_0hz8V6Oj6ghZUdjsYtJRYlJhoJUv3tpp1YCwPcsCQIsWNXs-j4YrVZsdyczT0i9vBML1Lyrlp8GB83keyNmPB6ZK1yMpxQjvpuhwiLF-1BcWolWVFOBuEfddb3OpGwM2Gx7l4Usiwt/s1600/Leather+Jacket.jpg" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Tom of Finland</a> was, I knew that leather and the restraint that comes with such a material surely means business.... <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Gubi </span><span style="font-size:100%;">i</span></span>s reissuing this mirror in the Fall of 2011, along with many other designers, such as Mategot, Grossman, etc.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">An Icon of French Modernism </span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span> "Adnet was one of the first to integrate metal and glass in the structure and decoration of furniture and is known for his distinctly avant-garde designs. From the late 1920's until 1960, Adnet lead La Compagnie des Arts Francais, where his team of decorators included Francois Jourdain, Serge Mouille, Charlotte Perriand and Georges Jouve.<br /><br />Adnet saw himself as <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"innovator and classicist, an advocate for the tradition that leads us into the future."</span> </span></span>He was fascinated by functionalism and remained uninfluenced by fashionable trends, resulting in a style that was entirely own. Adnet's furniture designs were solidly constructed and minimal in form, yet the materials he used were unashamedly extravagant and expensive. For Adnet, a piece of furniture was not simply a useful decorative prop but a piece of prime importance to be considered in its own right."<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.gubi.dk/en/news/2011/adnet-mirror-from-gubi/" style="font-style: italic;">text from here.</a><br /><a href="http://www.gubi.dk/en/products/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">go to Gubi here...</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------------</span>

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