From garden to object in 1990

Face with industrial production, multiplying borrowed images from the past, late 19th century artists looked towards nature as a means of renewing their living environment. Just like painhters, they delved into its very source and headed for the garden. Art Nouveau, a movement that was as brief as it was prolific, decried then renowned, is represented by artists as famous as Guimard, Gallé and Lalique. Their creations, those of their contemporaries and of their followers, magnified the plant, its structure and its aspect through the perfecting of inventive techniques that proffer the object with a magical character.

Honorary curator at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Marie-Noël de Gary has participated in a number of exhibitions and was behind the creation of the museum’s department of graphic art before taking charge of the Nissim de Camondo museum.