Art Deco is back at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, after a successful premiere in 2013, for a groundbreaking exhibition exploring intellectual and artistic exchanges between France and North America!
Poster for the Art Deco France / North America exhibition © Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, 2022
First emerging after the First World War, the Art Deco movement takes its name from the 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. It developed during the Roaring Twenties, a period when architects moved back and forth between Europe and North America, helping to spread the movement worldwide. Americans studied in France and imported it to their country, while many French architects taught in the United States, anchoring it a little more firmly on the American continent.
A true synthesis of the arts, bringing together several trades, including architecture, sculpture, ironwork and painting, Art Deco, claimed by France, was magnified in New York, where many skyscrapers still proudly display this iconic style today.
Exposition Art déco France / Amérique du Nord © Denys Vinson, 2022
The exhibition traces the development of Art Deco thinking from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris to the United States, where many architects produced works inspired by French architectural production of the period.
Exposition Art déco France / Amérique du Nord © Gaston Bergeret – Cécile Septet / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, 2022
Art Deco France / North America exhibition © Gaston Bergeret – Cécile Septet / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, 2022
Practical info
Until March 06, 2023
1, Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre
75116 Paris
Opening hours :
Daily: 11am – 7pm
Up to 10pm on Thursdays
Close on Tuesdays
Admission from €6
Contact:
T : +33 1 58 51 52 00
