say that men’s minds to-day have been stirred up to remember what it is they aspire to. We may well believe that the appointed time of architecture has come.
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M. PAUL VERA: TAIL PIECE
The Greeks, the Romans, the Grand Siècle, Pascal and Descartes, wrongly adduced as witnesses in favour of the decorative arts, have enlightened our judgment, and we now find ourselves immersed in architecture; architecture which is everything—but is not the "decorative arts."
Tail pieces and garlands, exquisite ovals where triangular doves preen themselves or one another, boudoirs embellished with "poufs" in gold and black velvet, are now no more than the intolerable witnesses to a dead spirit. These sanctuaries stifling with elegancies, or on the other hand with the follies of "Peasant Art," are an offence.
We have acquired a taste for fresh air and clear daylight.
Engineers unknown to the world at large, mechanics in
