Intéieurs Modernes.

Paris.: Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne., c.1900.. Loose as issued in original publisher's turquoise cloth portfolio with flaps, elaborate gilt decoration and title to front board, interior lined with gilt decorative paper.. Oblong folio. (470 x 330 mm).. Half-title with copy right verso, elaborate decorative colour title with explanatory note verso, two leaves with 'Table des Planches' in red and blue and 60 facsimiles of Rémon's watercolours. An excellent copy of Georges Rémon's pictorial work on 'Intérieurs Modernes'.'Les planches de cet ouvrage ont été exécutés en facsimile d'aquarelle par Mm. Fortier-Marotte et imprimées sur papier fabriqué spécialement par Mm. Breto & Cie.' (Explanatory note to title verso).Georges Rémon originally worked in his father's firm as an 'architecte decorateur.' Later he became the Director of L'Ecole des Arts Appliques de la Ville de Paris. He was a fluent practitioner of French XVIII & XVIIIth century style, but this extraordinary suite of watercolours shows him moving into the Art Nouveau. These imagined interiors cover not only the principle rooms of a grand house, salon, dining room, bedrooms, studio, billiard room and bathroom. They also include a chapel and a theatre. With his brother Jerome he worked on the decoration of the great French ocean liners, France, Normandie & Ile de France among others.