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© Jacopo Brancati, Infine <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
THE MAGAZINE DISCOVERY<br />
The folly of Mr. Loo<br />
When tourists come to admire the<br />
architectural follies of the Parc<br />
Monceau, a considerable surprise<br />
awaits them. A stone's throw away,<br />
in Rue de Courcelles, in the middle<br />
of all those typically Parisian Haussmann façades,<br />
rises a capricci straight out of a landscape by Li<br />
Cheng: an oxblood-red pagoda bearing witness to<br />
90 GAZETTE DROUOT INTERNATIONAL I N° 23<br />
the singular ambition of one man, an adventurer who<br />
came all the way from far-off China to make his<br />
fortune in Europe. Ching-Tsai Loo, who was really<br />
called Lu Huan Wen, arrived in Paris at the beginning<br />
of the 20th century without a penny to his name. Fifty<br />
years later, Loo was the head of an empire built upon<br />
the antique trade: a success that soon spread to New<br />
York and Beijing, though its cornerstone was always
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