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September 2000
Maxime Old
, New Interest In A Midcentury French Master
by Mitchell Owens
"We didn't want to have the traditional
Deco pieces that everyone in New York had been buying,"Frank
Rogin says of the inventory at his Soho furniture store,which
has drawn in Naomi Leff,Victoria Hagan and Harry Schnaper."Although
much of what we have is from the 1920s,'30s and '40s,it would
be better called French modernist."He shows the major
names,such as Jacques Adnet,alongside lesserknown masters:Francis
Jourdain,Maurice Dufrene,Andre' Sornay and Maxime Old.Rogin
also prefers architects designs,and the sources vary from
de Stijl to postwar Italian (Gio Ponti is a favorite)."I'm
most interested in what was produced by the avant-garde movements,"he
says,"Frank's approach is academic,"Shnaper notes,"yet
he's elevated this furniture to art."
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