Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is a Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. It extends across the northern wing of the Louvrepalastes to Marsan pavilion in the far northwest. After a reconstruction by architect Gaston Redon was opened on 29 May 1905. Its foundation dates back to the initiative of the association Les Arts Décoratifs, which is dedicated to promoting the decorative arts of France prescribed and still runs the museum.

• 2.1 The jewelery collection
• 2.2 The donation Dubuffet
• 2.3 The collection of toys

History

The building

The museum is located in the north wing of the Louvrepalastes and is accessed through a private entrance on the Rue de Rivoli in the Rohan pavilion. The museum occupies almost the entire Marsan wing and extends to the Marsan pavilion in the far northwest. It has nine floors and with almost 9000 square meters.

1806 by the architects Charles Percier and Pierre -François- Léonard Fontaine at the instigation of Napoleon Bonaparte the construction of the Marsan wing in attack, which should connect the Palais des Tuileries, parallel to the Grande Galerie in the south, with the old Louvrepalast. The Pavillon de Marsan served as a link between Tuileries Palace and Marsan wings and forms so to this day the counterpart to the pavilion of Flores. At the time of the Second Empire, the work lasted. Napoléon III. could the Nouveau Louvre finally inaugurate in 1857. In the uprising of the Paris Commune in 1871, the Pavilion Marsan and Marsan wings were badly damaged by fire, but rebuilt in 1875-1878.

The Museum

The history of the museum is closely linked with that of the association Les Arts Décoratifs: This was founded in 1864 as the Union centrale des Beaux Arts appliqués à l'industrie after the model of the South Kensington Museum of industrialists. A few months later a small collection was created and in two private rooms, a first small museum was opened with an attached library. 1875 attracted the museum and the library at the Place des Vosges. They were open until late every day, free evening and were directed primarily to artists and workers who should have the opportunity here after work to take advantage of the museum or the library. 1882, the Central Union of Industrialists concluded by founded by aristocrats and politicians Société du musée des Arts Décoratifs, together with the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs ( UCAD ). Together they began to look for a suitable location for a future Museum of Decorative Arts. After the Senate had the Quai d'Orsay finally rejected as a possible location, choosing the early 1890s already fell to the Pavillon de Marsan. 1898 was the French state of UCAD the Marsan wing and pavilion for 15 years from the date of opening. The reconstruction and the establishment of the museum were the responsibility of UCAD. After expiry of the contract the entire collection should become the property of the state. After some delay - a planned opening was parallel to the World 's Fair in 1900 - 1904 was the library, and on 29 May 1905, in the presence of French President Émile Loubet, the museum opened. From 1938 to 1944, the museum was closed, and the objects were moved to safety in the castles of the Loire.

In the 1950s, the main hall was reserved for special exhibitions. In the surrounding rooms, the collection of 19th and 20th century was exhibited, including a small room in the style of the year 1925. In the higher floors of the tour was in chronological order, from the Middle Ages, applied to Empire. Under the roof were the collections of foreign objects. The Marsan Pavilion, whose high ceilings allowed the issuance of the great Persian and Anatolian carpets, was dedicated to the Orient collection.

Opened in 1978, the UCAD, the Musée de l' Affiche ( from 1981 Musée de la Publicité, Museum of Advertising ), located since 1990 in the third floor of the Marsan wing. 1986 was added in the Fashion Museum ( Musée des Arts de la Mode, now the Musée de la Mode et du Textile ), which arose from the Alliance of UCAD with the Union française des arts du costume ( Ufac ). Today it presents itself in the first and second floor of the Marsan wing. In 1996, the museum for ten years to be completely renovated under the project Grand Louvre of the then French President François Mitterrand and newly decorated. 2002 could the library be reopened, in 2004 - the year of the renaming of the UCAD in Les Arts Décoratifs - was added in the jewelry gallery, in September 2006, finally opened last renewed the Musée des Arts Décoratifs its doors to the public.

Director / inside

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The collections

The museum houses several collections with a total of about 150,000 objects, of which about 6,000 are presented to the public. The collections are divided into five chronological divisions ( Middle Ages to the Renaissance, 17th to 18th Century, 19th century, Art Nouveau to Art Deco, Modernism to the 21st century ) and in five thematic sections (graphics, jewelry, toys, glass and historic wallpapers ) arranged. So shall the chronological tour illustrate the development of artistic production in terms of arts and crafts from the Middle Ages to the contemporary design: furniture, dishes, graphics, goldsmith's art, glass art, ceramics, wallpaper, tapestries, paintings and sculptures are presented together. Most of the collection comes from donations and bequests, which benefit the museum since its inception and thus illustrate the taste of collectors in the course of time.

The jewelery collection

The jewelry museum's collection includes about 4,000 objects from antiquity to modern times, of which about 1,200 to the visitor. The jewelry gallery offers a glimpse of the jeweler's art from the Middle Ages to the present day. A number of display cases but also shows jewelry that is made ​​from simpler materials and without tools. The collection provides a representative pieces of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a special jewelry ensemble of the 18th century and a large variety of jewelry of the 19th century. The Art Nouveau jewelry is represented by, among other exceptional pieces by Georges Fouquet (1862-1957) and René Lalique. The jewelry of Art Deco and the 1930s is presented on the basis of pieces of Boucheron and Cartier. The jewelry of the 1940s occupies a large area of ​​the exhibition, a rarity here is the created by artists such as Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Henri Laurens and Jean Lurçat jewelry. In addition, for example, pieces of Van Cleef & Arpels, Jar, Chanel, Mellerio Lorenz Bäumer and can be seen.

The donation Dubuffet

1967 decided the artist Jean Dubuffet, his private collection, consisting of 21 paintings, seven sculptures and 132 drawings to bequeath to the museum. It reflects the diversity of his life's work. The donation will be presented alternately display in a separate area.

The toy collection

The toy museum's collection, begun in 1905, now has over 12,000 games and toys from the mid-19th century to the present. It was created from numerous donations from enthusiasts and collectors as well as manufacturers and manufacturers. It is made available annually by two changing thematic exhibitions to the public.