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The museum collection was founded in 1905 by members of the Union des Arts décoratifs ("Union of Decorative Arts"). The architect was Gaston Redon. It houses and displays furniture, interior design, altarpieces, religious paintings, objets d'arts, tapestries, wallpaper, ceramics and glassware, plus toys from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg, France; Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs, Lyon, France; Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia; Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin (Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin), Germany; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze), Czech Republic
In the 19th century, many of the pieces of furniture migrated again, sold by British aristocrats to wealthy Americans. Extensive collections are found today in the Museum of Decorative Arts and Louvre in Paris; the Wallace Collection and Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the Metropolitan Museum in New York; and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The first museum was called Musée d'Art ancien. The museum was obliged to close during World War II, and in 1940, the collections were crated and stored in the cellars of the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Museum). On 2 July 1955, the museum reopened to the public as the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum). In 1984, the ...
Decorative arts: Decorative arts made of silver Petit Palais: 8th: Art (VP) Paintings, sculpture, Ancient Greek and Roman art, Renaissance art and artifacts, 17th, 18th and 19th century art and artifacts, art from the Western and Eastern Christian worlds, engravings and drawings, photography Salle des Traditions de la Garde Républicaine: 4th ...
Les Arts décoratifs is a private, non-profit organization which manages museums of decorative arts located in Paris, France. The first museum dates to 1882, when collectors with an interest in the applied arts formed the initial organization. For many years it was known as the Union centrale des arts décoratifs (UCAD), but in December 2004 it ...
The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (French: Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes) was a specialized exhibition held in Paris, France, from April 29 (the day after it was inaugurated in a private ceremony by the President of France) [1] to October 25, 1925. [2]
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. ' Decorative Arts '), [1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.