THE BEST FROM MAD PARIS

Gallery des Bijoux at Musée des Arts Décoratif Paris

Earrings of figures from centuries ago, still totally cool and wearable today

La Belle Epoque

Period between 1880 -1914

Film by Georges Méliès, Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)

Art Nouveau The collection at MAD includes some of the most exquisite f

Eugene Samuel Grasset, Salon des Cent Poster (1894-5)

Eugene Samuel Grasset, Exposition Internationale Madrid

Kate Greenaway's Language of flowers by Kate Greenaway (1884)

ART DECO

Erté, Le Harem moderne (1918), MAD Paris

Erté “L’Inoubliable Nuit, No 45 (1917), Shapiro Auction

Jean Dunand,4 leaved screen carved and lacquer (ca. 1922), 6 leaved screen with geometric design in laquer (ca.1925)

Gotham : the spire of the Chrysler building ( William Van Allen 1928-30), seen between then RCA Victor tower, left ( Cross & Cross 1930-31) and one of the towers of the Waldorf Astoria ( Schultze & Weaver, 1930-31)

Photo by André Durst, Jean Patou dress, Vogue (1939)

Edward Steichen photo of Marion Morehouse in LBD (1926)

Steichen photo of Marion in Louise Boulanger dress (1926)

Gloria Swanson in My American Wife (1922)

Lee Miller by Edward Steichen, Vogue (1928)

Georges Braque, Figure fragments (1939)

Georges Braque, Hera et Themis Print (1932-1939) V&A London

Georges Braque, Woman with a Guitar (1913)

Jean Lurcat, La pluie et le bon temp tappestry (1950)

Pierre Cardin dress