My personal favorite, one that I
could build a powder room, master bathroom or children���s bathroom around, comprises a kneeling Guerin elephant with a monkey
on its back as a spout, with faux
ivory tusk handles. The whole is
made that much more dramatic
by gold highlights with the pair of
cream ivory tusks set against metallic grey. In the same suite, gilt
ram finials, lion hooks, crab knobs
and horse and hoof levers would
easily find a home.
A touch of the macabre and the
sublime lurk in the Guerin collection. A face-mask of a man, handsomely grotesque, with lips formed
by the scales of a shell awaits a
spout. Small insects, generally
delightful, abound. A gilt snake
wrapped around a dark bronze finished lever in the form of a branch
would comprise a wonderful pair of
handles as a warning for all those
who would open a liquor cabinet
to imbibe imprudent pleasure for
good spirit nigh bad. Or placed at
the garden door, this Guerin snake
HYLAND
