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At once neoclassical and baroque, Emilio Terry designed houses, furniture, tapestries, objets d'art, gardens, and the interior decor of apartments and châteaux. He launched an architectural style which he named the "style Louis XVII", an imaginary style freely inspired by historical examples such as
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Terry was born in Paris on 13 September 1890 to
Francisco Terry y Dorticós, son of a prominent Cuban family, Spanish and Irish in origin, that made its fortune in the sugar plantations. His mother, a great beauty, was the former Antonia Sánchez. His paternal grandfather was sugar baron
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on frequent visits. For 35 years, Emilio Terry restored this château and decorated it in the right period style. He bequeathed
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In 1933, Terry realised a model of a double-spiral house, called "en colimaçon" ("snail-style"), which illustrated one of his theories, that the art of architecture expressed a "dream to be realised" ("rêve à réaliser"). A 1936 portrait of Emilio Terry by
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was a French architect, artist, interior decorator and landscape designer of Cuban-Irish ancestry. Creating furniture, tapestries and objets d'art, he was influenced by the
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shows this and other models in the foreground. Expressions of the "style Louis XVII" can be found in the work of the landscape artist
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Emilio Terry: Architecte et decorateur", Paris: Gourcuff
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Among his clients, Emilio Terry worked for the Greek arms-manufacturer
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Emilio's sister, Natalia Terry y Sánchez, had married Count
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MĂ©moires, Introduction et notes d'Emmanuel de
Waresquiel
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who disclose in his diaries that he was homosexual.
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