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  • “Les Cagnas” screen
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Jean Dunand (1877–1942) Paris, c. 1921 Mahogany, lacquer, metal Six leaves 180 x 50 cm (each) Long-term loan from the Ministère de l’Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, 1923 Inv. MIN B.A. ss n°(57) © ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The style of this screen is that of a modern painting. It depicts a winter landscape in the Argonne hills, near the forest of La Grurie in the Ardennes region of France. The (...)

  • Vanity closet
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Eileen Gray (1878-1976) France, 1926-1929 Oregon pine (pitch pine), plywood, cork, aluminum, glass, traces of turquoise paint 161 x 60 x 165 cm Gift of Mme Goisot, 1967 Inv. 41349 © MAD If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The first example of this vanity closet was created for the master bedroom of the E-1027 house designed by Eileen Gray with the Romanian architect Jean Badovici. The house, on an outcrop overlooking the sea at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on (...)

  • Reading armchair
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Pierre Legrain (1888-1929) Paris, about 1925-1928 Veneer of thorny and satin mahogany, silver-plated metal, braided leather 115 x 59 x 45 cm Gift of Jean Édouard Dubrujeaud in memory of Jacques Doucet, 1958 Inv. 38148 A-B © MAD If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This armchair is one of the many furniture pieces made by Pierre Legrain between 1916 and 1929 for the fashion designer and art collector Jacques Doucet. The latter had a new home furnished at (...)

  • État rectangle cabinet
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann (1879-1933) Paris, c. 1922-1923 Amaranth veneer, ivory and ebony marquetry, gilt bronze, red satinwood interior 126.7 x 84 x 31.5 cm Gift of Mmes Albert and Raymond Wattinne in the name of their parents, M. and Mme Édouard Rasson, 1969 Inv. 42786 © MAD If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This single-door cabinet has three inside shelves. It has two straight back legs and two curved front legs that are attached to the body by two (...)

  • Four-leaf screen
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Raymond Subes (1891-1970) Brushed wrought iron, polished in parts Borderel and Robert workshops, Paris, 1934 Gift of the Subes family, 2013 Inv. 2013.21.1 © MAD If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library RESTORED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CARRÉ RIVE GAUCHE ENDOWMENT FUND, 2015 Thanks to the metalworker Émile Robert, decorative ironwork returned to fashion in the early twentieth century. It became very popular in the interwar period, with works by renowned artists (...)

  • Two bowls and a beaker
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Émile Decœur (1876-1953) Bowl, c. 1930 Enameled wheel-thrown stoneware, underglaze incised lines, incised monogram under the base H. 6 cm, Diam. 11 cm Gift of André Véra in memory of his brother, M. Paul Véra, 1959 Inv. 38282 © MAD Beaker, 1932 Enameled wheel-thrown stoneware, incised monogram under the base H. 8.4 cm, Diam. 7.4 cm Long-term loan from the Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1941 Inv. MNAM AM 1270 OA © MAD Bowl, 1938 Enameled wheel-thrown stoneware, incised monogram under the base H. 5.9 (...)

  • Armand Albert Rateau (1882-1938), Jeanne Lanvin’s bathroom, Paris, c. 1924-1925
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Marble, bronze, glass, plasterwork and stucco Gift of Prince Louis de Polignac, 1965 Inv. 39903, 39904, 39915, 39944 A-B, 39947 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library In 1920, the famous fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin asked the designer-decorator Armand-Albert Rateau to furnish her apartment at 16, Rue Barbet-de-Jouy in Paris. Rateau, who stood apart from his contemporaries, used his culture and imagination to create a highly personal (...)

  • Study-library of the French Embassy
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) Paris, 1925 Carcase in beech, palm wood veneer Long-term loan from the Musée National d’Art Moderne, 2000 Inv. MNAM AM 2000-1-1 © MAD If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The “French Embassy” pavilion, created by the Société des Artistes Décorateurs under the authority of the French Ministry of Fine Arts, was one of the most remarkable works to be seen at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in (...)

  • André Groult (1884-1967), Chiffonnier, Paris, 1925
    8 octobre 2018, par FABIEN

    Galuchat, hêtre, acajou, ivoire Acquis grâce au Fonds du patrimoine, avec le concours des mécénats de Michel et Hélène David-Weill, de Jayne Wrightsman, de Shiseido, de Fabergé et de la galerie Doria, 1999 Inv. 998.257.1 © ADAGP, Paris / Les Arts Décoratifs Si vous souhaitez utiliser ce visuel, veuillez contacter la photothèque Pour l’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de 1925, la Société des artistes décorateurs, qui avait décidé de réaliser un pavillon sur le thème (...)

  • Large vase with two leaf-shaped handles
    27 July 2017, by FABIEN

    François Décorchemont (1880-1971) France, 1925 Model 272 Lost wax pate-de-verre H. 24 cm; Diam. with handles 25 cm Bequest of M. and Mme Louis Barthou, 1934 Inv. 32250 © ADAGP, Paris / photo: MAD, Paris If you would like to use this image, please contact the picture library François Décorchemont exhibited his first pate-de-verre pieces at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1903. His early forms and decorations were influenced by the naturalism of Art Nouveau, but in the immediate post-war (...)