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Eclectic European.(FARTHER afield)(Galerie Camoin Demachy)(Directory)

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Whether it be a baroque mirror, a Wiener Werkstatte cabinet, or a spare 1950s chandelier, Galerie Camoin Demachy, on the quai Voltaire across from the Louvre, sells objects of dramatic flair. Proprietor Alain Demachy believes, "There are no bad periods, just bad artists." Defining himself as an architect and interior designer first and a dealer second, he looks for the visceral frisson of a coup de coeur in the pieces he acquires.

If the finest late eighteenth-century French pieces remain personal favorites, he seesthe merits of numerous styles and the threads that draw them together. In his opinion, for example, the startling modernism of a Georges Jacob chair made of ...

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