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Drawing

circa 1910 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The architectural partnership was founded in 1900 by Charles Frédéric Mewès (1860- 1914) and Arthur Joseph Davis (1878-1951). Both studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became famous for their skillful reinterpretation of 18th-century styles.

They built a large practice working for rich financiers and industrialists both in France and Britain. They remodelled Luton Hoo for the diamond magnate Julius Wernher, and one of their most celebrated commission was the Ritz Hotel (1903-6) in London, the first steel-framed building in the city designed with a Parisian exterior and mansard roof, and interiors in the Louis XVI style.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pencil
Brief description
Two drawings for marbled chimney pieces in the Louis XVI style by Mewes and Davis, c. 1910
Physical description
Two designs for mantelpieces in the Louis XVI style
Dimensions
  • Height: 311mm
  • Width: 211mm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
cheminee chambre cheminee chambre Louis XVI
Subjects depicted
Summary
The architectural partnership was founded in 1900 by Charles Frédéric Mewès (1860- 1914) and Arthur Joseph Davis (1878-1951). Both studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became famous for their skillful reinterpretation of 18th-century styles.

They built a large practice working for rich financiers and industrialists both in France and Britain. They remodelled Luton Hoo for the diamond magnate Julius Wernher, and one of their most celebrated commission was the Ritz Hotel (1903-6) in London, the first steel-framed building in the city designed with a Parisian exterior and mansard roof, and interiors in the Louis XVI style.
Bibliographic reference
Cat. 14 Edwardian Opulence. British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Yale venter for British Art, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-300-19025-0.
Collection
Accession number
E.866:100-1975

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