Of course there is an assumed nostalgia about the time when France was within the worlds leading countries…. but you can’t help being nostalgic about about a modernity that joyful and worry less…
And times when women after being put to work during WWI, decided they were not going to go back to their kitchens :
Jean Patou’s boyish woman
1925 Art deco’s Paris exhibition
Major event in the story of decorative arts, architecture and diffusion of ideas, this exhibition turned out to be a grand marketing event for French savoir faire
Studium, ligne de décoration des grands magasins du Louvre
Pomone, ligne deco du Bon Marche
Primavera, l’atelier de decoration du Printemps
Le pavillon du tourisme, Robert Mallet-Stevens
Even the electrical control centre was lavishly designed…
The exquisite finish of art deco furniture
Reconstitution of Tamara de Lempicka’s loft, by architecture Robert Mallet-Stevens, interior design by her sister Adrienne Gorska, armchair by Louis Sognot
Car’s gas tank tops
Lustre Andre Granet
Paul Follot: Coiffeuse cubiste
Gaston Suisse, paravent
Jaques-Emile Ruhlmann, bureau a cylindre, hotel du collectionneur
Francois Pompon, Ours (plaster, there is an enormous and beautiful marble one in Orsay)
Gaston Suisse, lacquer
..portfolios were widely used by Art deco’ s main protagonists to diffuse their ideas, from architectural to detailed craftsmanship
..a new architecture
Albert Laprade, león Emile Bazin, Maurice-jacques Ravaze, garage Citroen, 1928-29
Immeuble style paquebot, Georges-Henri Pingusson
Claude Paz y Silva: Pavillon de Saint-Gobain in Exposition internationale de Paris, 1937
Villa-Atelier Martel, Joel et Jan Martel: 1926-27
..and design across the Atlantic, paquebot Normandie, Roger-Henri Expert, Richard Bouwens Van der Boijen
..and finally the exportation of the art deco style and craftsmanship to the Americas and beyond….
..Rio, Christ the redeemer, Paul Landowski, designed in his Boulogne-Billancourt workshop
..Rockerfeller center, L’architecte triomphe du temps, Bernard Boutet de Monvel
The prince and princess of Japan’s residence, 1929: architecture Gondo Yokichi, interior design Henri Rapin, light vase by manufacture de Sevres
Typical geometric Art Deco pattern
La force de l’intellignece, maquette du monument a la defence du Canal de Suez, Raymond Delabarre, 1930
