It is a soiepirate exhibition of the National Gallery of Zurich.
It is the exhibition of many splendid archive collection that noble company ABRAHAM left of silk print.
The total picture of his splendid work after Gustav Zumsteg purchases this company in '68 is seen in particular.
Zurich of old days was an excellent production center of the silk which competed with Como district of neighboring Italy more than 100 years.
The Gustav died two years ago, too.
Though he made an opportunity he met, and to do it during the lifetime, I was distracted by business and looked forward to this exhibition even more because it was not possible to meet at last.
As for me, there was an opportunity it was informed a friend, and to visit the treasure house of these treasures, the archive room,once after a company was closed.
I remembered it clearly, but it was still a home of the elegance that there overflowed.
Collections of documents of a splendid textile and the print of the hand dyeing of the 18th century when them gathered you their form a line,
It was the room where the scrapbooks of the print of ABRAHAM which did not lose in them formed a line orderly.
At first,the room was provided till my that memory revived from the first exhibition room.
I was similar till excitement and impressions overflowed and did not suffer in so much time.
The restaurant for chosen people from the whole world & this town,we can be seeing reproduction one room of Kronenhalle that his mother began in the '20s that was most snobbish restaurant in Zurich .
The next room of space where there harks back to then so much prosperity.
After, the rush of the great archives of ABRAHAM.
The group works to establish their couturier to use them at the time.
Worked with the greatest couturiers,C.Balenciaga, Lanvin, C.Dior, YSL., Valentino, J.Fath,C.Lacroix, Bill Blass, James Galanos ,Geoffrey Beene,and so on.
Also,CdG was & Diane P. ,when she was real designer in N.Y.
Yes, this exhibition of my eyes, "What this means elegance?", Respectively.
I learned a lot of things in this exhibition it was.
Also,the elegance of this well or was it something that is lived at that time varies depending on age and women.
As a result, companies have a noble dignity silk print high aesthetics, ABRAHAM could have come to understand the cause of closing that glorious gate in '96.
The present age "what this means elegance?", The things that had to be completely change in quality,so quick.
In the modern luxury was not born on the real character and dignity, It's only a virtual image of vanity was put on the consuming society.
It 's the only gold-plated elegance!.
And,at the end corner there was an exhibition of student works was very disappointing.
That's extra too bad taste for me,so sorry.
To face such that it exhibits the elegance, which I have rather a lot of pictures made at the golden time of their couturier?
Maybe this is the essence of the museum curator, was not out of this ABRAHAM understand and sour herring?
Or,did not understand the elegance out of herself?
Or, that's only rip-service?
However,this exhibition of ABRAHAM is imbued with elegance at the time of bursting & full of the Monsieur Swiss Silk King Gustav Zumsteg's an aesthetic senses for his great mother,Madame Hulda & her noble restraint
Kronenhalle.
Thank you very much for great your aesthetic senses the Monsieur Gustav Zumsteg.
21 Oct.'10 in Zurich.
TAKE.Hirakawa:
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