r - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Art Deco style. The oriental method of
applying layer on layer of 'resins, which he
had first used to decorate hammered
metal vases, became his all-consuming
craft. Dunand eventually had to employ up
to one hundred Indo-Chinese assistants in
his Paris workshop to help him complete
orders for lacquer panels, screens, and
furniture that flowed in from architects,
artistes decorateurs, and private clients.
This pair of screens, titled Battle of the
Angels: Crescendo and Pianissimo, was
commissioned for the music room of Mr.
and Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim's Long