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gramophoneshane wrote:I'd still like to know why a couple of our members keep calling these "art" models when it appears they were never called anything but deluxe "period" models??
The word Art is used many times in the description of these Very High End Period Models. For example: "The Discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii stimulated a tremendous enthusiasm for Roman ART, and the ART inherent in the Italian temperament and all the mental and bodily vigor of the race found its fullest expression at that time, and the Bardini is Sonora's utmost achievement, created after the manner of a late sixteenth century cabinet belonging to the Bardini Collection. The Italian Renaissance Sonora illustrates the generous use of Architectural forms, carved ornamentation and lavish enrichment which is typical of this notable period of ARTISTIC Activity. The furniture of the Louis Quinze era reveals a command over ARTISTIC and Technical resources of the part of its makers unsurpassed in the records of mobiliary woodwork. These are just few examples of the marvelously embellished descriptions pointing out the Artistic Periods of history and design in furniture making that inspired these marvelously appointed Sonora Period Cabinet Phonographs. If one really soaks up these descriptions as the authors intended, it is obvious why some of us have come to describe these wonders of a bygone era, with the tag of "Art Model" or "Art Case", please excuse us for your obvious annoyance with the word "Art" to describe these Sonoras.