"In 2025, Paris celebrated the centenary of a remarkable exposition that happened in the city 100 years before, from April to October 1925. Sixteen million people attended the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts). Countries worldwide exhibited their latest designs at the vast expo, which would again consolidate France as capital of the arts post-war 1918, leaving the historicism of late nineteenth-century design behind."
"In Paris in 1909, the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev (1872 - 1929) launched the Ballet Russes, introducing the excitement of Igor Stravinsky's music and bejewelled costumes by Léon Bakst (1866-1924). It instigated a design revolution. In France, to capitalise on art and design innovation, it was decided to have an international exhibition. It would promote international design and the best French designers, such as the interior designer and textile giant, Émile-Jaques Ruhlmann (1879-1933), and Paul Poiret (1879-1944), a master couturier."
Paris hosted the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, attracting sixteen million visitors and showcasing global design innovations. The exposition solidified France’s status as the post‑1918 capital of the arts and shifted tastes away from nineteenth‑century historicism. The term Art Deco emerged later during a 1960s revival, signifying wealth and glamour across fashion, textiles, jewellery, automobiles, furniture, interiors, and streamlined architectural geometry. Origins trace to 1909–10 as Art Nouveau waned and movements like Futurism, Fauvism and Cubism expanded design possibilities. Cultural catalysts included Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and leading designers such as Émile‑Jacques Ruhlmann and Paul Poiret.
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