Written by Brittany Kleinman: Now until Feb. 22nd, the MCNY (Museum of the City of New York) is hosting a captivating exhibition on the art and design of the 1920’s & 30’s. Entitled, Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940, the show will explore not only architecture and design, but also film, fashion, and the performing arts. Work of such legendary figures as Helena Rubinstein, Coco Chanel, Salvador Dali, and Josephine Baker will transport you from Art Deco to neo-romanticism. The exhibition and its accompanying publication will bring together never-before-exhibited drawings, furnishings, decorative objects, costumes, photographs, posters, and films.

As described on MCNY’s website, the 1920s and ‘30s witnessed a burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining fashion, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era’s most creative figures rarely worked in isolation, preferring instead to participate in international dialogues that crossed national boundaries and linked capital cities in collaborative artistic enterprise. Between the world wars, no two cities engaged in a more fertile conversation than Paris, capital of 19th-century refinement, and New York, the upstart challenger that represented 20th-century dynamism. Click Read More for additional information.

Event Details

Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940
At the Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, NYC
tele. 212.534.1672
Oct 3 through Feb 22

Museum of the City of New York
Art Daily on Design Fashion Culture
New York Mag on Design Fashion Culture

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