Edition La Bourrée (France) / c.
1926
Corporate background:
The Bourrée is a regional French
folk-dance, originally performed around a log fire, which over
time became refined into an elegant sort of minuet.
Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher
and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.
Design: Considerable
effort was put into creating this logo, which shows perspective
as well as a three dimensional effect.
This kind of lettering had its origins in
the inventive (but sometimes tasteless) profusion of ideas of
the Victorian era, when, in an attempt to achieve the illusion
of a third dimension, letters were being constructed out of
sawed-off branches, planks of wood, piles of rocks, mounds of
flowers, flowing ribbons -- and, as here, cast-iron.