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Article: Wartime Gilt: French Furniture of the '40s.(exhibit of French furniture made just before, during, and after World War II)
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- Art in America
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- September 1, 1999
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As France continues to rethink its recent past, an exhibition outside Paris provided an unprecedented look at the decorative arts of this troubled and controversial decade.
Boulogne, a Paris suburb bordering the Bois de Boulogne, is best known today for its elegant Art Deco homes, for its right-wing politicians and, since last year, for a museum celebrating 1930s Return-to-Order painting and sculpture (Le Musee des annees 30). Recently, Boulogne's Centre Culturel mounted an ambitious temporary exhibition, "Les Decorateurs des armies 40," that sought to examine and rehabilitate a little-known period in the French decorative arts. Devoted to sumptuous-looking ...