Album "Elégance et modernité 1908-1958 Un renouveau à la française"

This French album was published for the exhibition Elégance et modernité (1908-1958) - Un renouveau à la française presented at the galerie des Gobelins until July 26, 2009.

One of the Mobilier national's flagships is an extraordinary collection of seats and folding screens lined with tapestry, dating from the first half of the 20th century. This collection includes several sets that were initially destined to principal residences and embassies and feature a brilliant renewal of French tradition relating to furniture garnished with tapestry.

The period creations, luxurious and original, show above all the quest of a refined harmony, as detached from avant-gardism as it is from the academism of the previous period, deliberately playing with the renewal of shapes, subjects and chromatic range. In this light, the manufacturers were able to associate in an original way the creators of cardboard and of furniture: this is how the fine woven models based on works by Jules Chéret, Raoul Dufy, Leonetto Cappiello, Paul Véra or Odilon Redon came to garnish elegant wood seats designed specially for them by the best furniture creators such as Paul Follot, André Groult, Maurice Dufrène, Armand-Albert Rateau,Eric Bagge, André Arbus or Marc Du Plantier.

This album presents some of the most remarkable works, illustrated by details that accentuate the delicacy of the textiles and the decorative elegance of the woodworks.
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