Style sapin
The style sapin (German fir style ) is a style of Art Nouveau coined by Charles L'Eplattenier (1874–1946) and his students in the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the 1900s .
The style sapin is characterized by its inclusion of the shapes of plants and other natural phenomena of the Jura region , and is named after the motif of the pine cone that appears frequently . The art school of La Chaux-de-Fonds wrote in a 1911 report: “The basis of our ornamental studies is always the fir tree. This tree offers us in all its ages, in whole or in detail, inexhaustible decorative resources. "
"Seule la nature est inspiratrice" , "only nature inspired" the guiding was the 1905 L'Eplattenier led Cours supérieur d'art et de décoration , whose students also Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, later as Le Corbusier known belonged . The works that L'Eplattenier and his students created in the sapin style include handicrafts such as watch cases and architectural decoration such as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's design for the Villa Fallet (1906). The La Chaux-de-Fonds crematorium (1909–1910) is considered a masterpiece and the most complete example of the style.
At the world exhibition in Milan in 1906, L'Eplattenier and his students received an honorary diploma for the 108 works of the fir-tree style presented. Several of these works are exhibited in the Art Museum of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Three works by Henriette Grandjean (1887–1968), a trunk and two ceramics, belong to the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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- Ecole d'art et Style sapin , La Chaux-de-Fonds municipality, accessed October 2014