Course
Schedule: 10:30 am -12 noon except 30 March.
Coffee and tea served at gallery sessions at 10 am.
16 March -
10:30 – 12 noon – Gallery – Art Deco
Paris: Architecture, decoration and the arts in the 1920’s.
20 March -Tuesday 10:30 – 12 noon –
Walk – Art Deco and Modernist architecture in
Montparnasse.
Meet opposite 26, rue Vavin 75006. Métro Vavin
(line 4).
23 March
10:30 – 12 noon – Gallery – Paris of the
Left Bank: Art, Literature and
Bohemia in the 1920’s.
30 March
12:15 – 1:45 – Visit – Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris. Art and furniture of the 1920’s and
1930’s. Meet lobby of museum, 11 avenue du Président
Wilson 75116. Métro Iéna
(line 9).
6 April
10:30 – 12 noon – Gallery – Fashion of
the 1920’s – the New Woman. Poiret, Chanel, Vionnet, Lanvin.With couturier and
costume historian Dimitri Papalexis.
13 April
10:30 – 12 noon – Visit and walk – Modern
architecture in the 16th arrdt : Le Corbusier Foundation and Mallet Stevens. Meet exit of Métro
Jasmin, 75016 (line 9).
Architecture and Design:
Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes:
April to October 1925
on the Champs Elysées.
Léon Azéma
– architect (1888-1978)
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) –
artist and architect (1887-1965)
Adolf Loos – architect (1870-1933)
Robert Mallet-Stevens – architect (1886-1945)
Constantin Melnikov
– architect (1890-1974)
Auguste Perret – architect (1874-1954)
Henri Sauvage – architect
(1873-1932)
Michel Roux Spitz – architect
(1888-1957)
Jacques-Emile Ruhlman – decorator, furniture designer (1879 – 1933)
Artists and Writers:
Robert Delaunay - painter (1885-1941)
Sonia Delaunay -
painter and clothes designer (1885-1979)
Fernand Léger - painter
(1881-1955)
Jean and Joël Martel - sculptors (1896-1966)
Piet Mondrian - painter (1872-1944)
Channa Orloff - sculptress (1888-1968)
Amédée Ozenfant - painter (1886-1966)
Tristan Tzara (poet, chief of Paris Dada movement) (1896 –1963)
