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"Pilote" Amelia Island has its famous Lighthouse, but we have Pilote guiding our way. She stands at the foot of the staircase, looking towards the future. This is Pilote, the Grand Lady of the House, created by the artist Xavier Raphanel. It all began in Paris in the second half of the 19th Century. A group of highly talented artists, trained at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, developed a distinctive style that epitomized the classical grandeur rooted in ancient Greece and Rome. French foundries began their now famous works in "French Bronze." Around the turn of the century the Beaux Art style was followed in popularity by the Art Nouveau and Art Deco, which were also cast in "French Bronze" by the same foundries. One of the customers for these "French Bronzes" was the New York Art Bronze Works, later to become J.B. Hirsch Co., founded in 1907 by Romanian émigré Joseph B. Hirsch. Hirsch and a few employees worked in a factory on New York's Lower East Side, producing ash trays, bookends, electroliers, and the newel‑post lamps used at the foot of staircase banisters in grand houses.
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