Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Novembre 1931, No. 135, 12e Année, p. 230 1931

This image comes from a 1931 edition of *Art - Goût - Beauté*, a French magazine dedicated to feminine elegance, and it shows furniture designs. What strikes me is the commitment to 'good taste' through simplicity. Look at the pale surfaces and clean lines, how the metallic furniture legs are echoed in the frames of the photography itself. The artist seems to be trying to emphasize the design concepts that underpin it all. I guess in a way, it's like looking at a diagram or a sketch where you're seeing the idea of a thing. It’s less about depth or perspective, more about a flat presentation. There's a shared focus on essential forms and functional beauty which makes me think about the Bauhaus movement, a school that embraced clarity in design and the integration of art, craft, and technology, as well as the de Stijl movement in the Netherlands. Both pushed for radical simplicity and abstraction. You know, the kind of clarity that can be both soothing and kind of austere.