The Arts Décoratifs Collection/Grabink

Architecture

Bookbindings

Objects

Paintings & Drawings

Room Settings

Sculpture

Textiles

A rare assembly of exciting art prints of Arts Décoratifs architecture, furniture, interior design, objects, illustrations, bookbindings, textiles, and sculpture.

Many great designers such as Jacques-Emile Ruhlman, Gerhard Sandoz, Mille Max Vibert, Da Silva Bruhns, Eric Bagge, Lucie Renaudot, Jan and Jean Martel, and Gustav Miklos are among the Modernists celebrated in these exquisite prints. Similarly, it is the photographers, whose talent and good sense to compose these images as works of art in addition to documenting their content, with whom we share this celebration.

The sheer size and impact of the prints offer a view well beyond the original intent. While an emphasis remains on the pictorial, the line, color and form that render it, now succumb to composition. The result is a strength of form, and quality of texture and color that reinforces the image and amplifies its inherent beauty.

The Arts Décoratifs was a period of significant output and a major contributor to the modern movement in Europe. It was at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, in Paris in 1925, that the world first saw modern art's impact on the decorative and industrial arts. A large body of work was recorded in books and portfolios between 1920 and 1937. It is from these rare, original documents that we bring these images to life.