1925 Paris Exhibition's Impact on US Art Deco Design and Crafts IN-PERSON

The Impact of the 1925 Paris Exhibition on American Art Deco Design and Craftsmanship

With Marilyn F. Friedman, Decorative Arts Historian

Presented in Partnership with The Art Deco Society of New York

Tuesday, March 11th at 6.00 P.M.

An In-Person and Online Program

The style now known as Art Deco was introduced to the world at the 1925 Exposition des arts décoratifs et industriels held in Paris. This international gathering of artists, designers, and craftsmen was intended to be a showcase for modernism in design; entries needed to show “clearly modern tendencies…” “…not historical styles.” The exposition drew visitors from around the globe who marveled at what they saw. And they took the ideas home and applied them to everything from architecture, interiors, decorative arts, furniture, fashion, jewelry, and…just about anything. The impact was staggering.

Please Join us for an illustrated lecture about the influence of the 1925 Paris Exposition in the United States and a celebration of a century of Art Deco. The lecture, which will be presented by decorative arts historian Marilyn F. Friedman, will explore the ways in which the concepts seen at the Exposition were presented to the American public, including shows at museums, department stores, and designers’ organizations. She will also discuss how designers such as Donald Deskey, Eugene Schoen, Kem Weber, Eleanor Le Maire, and Joseph Urban adopted and adapted the design that today we call Art Deco.

Marilyn F. Friedman is a design and decorative arts historian who lectures widely on twentieth century modern interiors and decorative arts. She is the author of Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior and Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s and many articles. She majored in government at Cornell University and received a JD degree from New York University Law. After practicing law, she enrolled in the master's program at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She volunteered in the Modern and Contemporary Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than a decade and is now volunteering in the Objects Conservation department at The Met. She is currently at work on a biography of the designer Eugene Schoen.

General Admission: $15

General Society Members and Senior Citizens: $10

Students: $5

Advance Registration required.

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