L'Exposition Universelle de 1900 : détails de sculpture
This is an 1900 Paris publication by Armand Guérinet, a plate book of sculptural details from the Exposition Universelle, made for architects, decorators and visitors interested in the fair's ornament. Its photographic plates show close-up views of carved façades, cartouches, window surrounds and figure groups from pavilions such as the Château d'Eau and the Tour du Monde. A designer could take from them the dense, sinuous Beaux-Arts ornament: scrolls, shells, mermaids and masks organised tightly around openings and cornices.
