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DESCRIPTION:Sylvain Cordier will be coming to speak in the François and Geo
 rge Selz Lectures on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century French Decorative
  Arts\, Design\, and Culture on Tuesday\, October 25\, 2011\, on “Bellangé
 \, Ebénistes à Paris: A History of Taste in Early Nineteenth-Century Franc
 e.”Sylvain Cordier is an independent scholar from Paris\, France.  He rece
 ived his Ph.D. from the Université Paris-Sorbonne\, where he has also taug
 ht as a Lecturer in Art History.  He has been a research fellow at the Get
 ty Research Institute in Los Angeles\, the Centre André Chastel in Paris\,
  and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  He is currently working 
 on a book on nineteenth-century century French decorative arts\, to be pub
 lished in 2012 by the Editions Mare et Martin\, Paris.Dr. Cordier’s talk w
 ill examine the Bellangé family\, prominent ébénistes whose workshops\, sp
 anning two generations\, offer a valuable window onto the changing fashion
 s\, styles\, and conditions of furniture production in Paris from the pre-
 revolutionary period to the Second Empire. By examining the complex rules 
 and traditions according to which the Bellangé crafted official objects fo
 r a variety of regimes—from one revolution to the next—the lecture reveals
  continuities and disjunctions in protocols and tastes between 1790 and 18
 40. Pierre-Antoine Bellangé (1757-1827)\, an exemplar of the Empire style\
 , filled prestigious state commissions in both France and America\, includ
 ing an order from President Monroe to furnish the drawing room of the newl
 y restored White House in Washington\, D.C. His son and successor\, Louis-
 Alexandre (1797-1861)\, exemplified the eclecticism and historicism of the
  July Monarchy in work embracing neo-gothic\, neo-Renaissance\, and Louis 
 XIV-revival styles. By contrast\, Pierre-Antoine’s younger brother Louis-F
 rançois (1759-1827) saw himself not as a fashionable cabinetmaker but as a
 n original craftsman offering luxury furniture to a clientele of visiting 
 British aristocrats after the fall of Napoleon. His production was charact
 erized by precious materials and the revival of eighteenth-century aesthet
 ics\, an approach continued by his son Alexandre until 1863. As a single f
 amily comprising diverse artisans\, the Bellangé family illustrates how on
 e Parisian workshop contributed to the history of taste\, style\, and inte
 rior decoration.Please RSVP and join us in the Lecture Hall at 38 West 86t
 h Street\, between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West\, at 5:45pm for a
  reception before the talk.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Bellangé\, Ebénistes à Paris: A History of Ta
 ste in Early Nineteenth-Century France
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