1925-2025. Cent ans d'Art déco

Journey to the heart of the Roaring Twenties and its heritage masterpieces with the exhibition “1925–2025. One Hundred Years of Art Deco.” Sculptural furniture, precious jewelry, works of art, drawings, posters and fashion pieces: nearly 1,000 works recount the richness, elegance and contradictions of a style that continues to fascinate.

One hundred years after the International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of 1925, which propelled Art Deco onto the world stage, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates this bold, refined and resolutely modern style. An immersive scenography, sumptuous materials, stylized forms and exceptional craftsmanship create a vivid, sensory journey in which Art Deco reveals all its facets.

The exhibition concludes spectacularly with the legendary Orient Express, a true jewel of luxury and innovation. A carriage from the former Étoile du Nord train as well as three models of the future Orient Express, reinvented by Maxime d’Angeac, fill the museum’s nave. It is an invitation to explore a world in which art, beauty and dreams are invented in the present as they were in 1925.

The exhibition’s general curatorship is by Bénédicte Gady, Director of Museums; the curatorship is by Anne Monier Vanryb, curator of modern collections 1910–1960, with scenography by Atelier Jodar and Studio MDA.

Estimated visit duration: 1 hour 30 minutes.