Thursday, May 17, 2012

You're The Top - 1930's Musuem in Paris

The Thirties was a time of intense creations. Crazy years of economic prosperity and intense boiling of technics, industrials, socials, architechturals and artistics innovations.

Boulogne was the main place  in Paris for this time: The Thirties' Museum  ( musee des Annees 30) is a unique place that makes it possible to travel in this special world. In the 1930s, Boulogne was one of the most dynamic towns in France. It was here, just on the edge of the capital, that the film-makers Abel Gance, Marcel Carné and Jean Renoir and the architects Le Corbusier, Mallet Stevens and Tony Garnier came to live or work… It was also in Boulogne that several automobile and aeronautical industries based themselves, including Renault.
Based on souvenirs from this important period in the history of Boulogne – photos, posters, objects as well as paintings and sculptures – the Musée des Années 30 (Museum of the 1930s) attempts to retrace the artistic fervor and technological dynamism which marked the inter-war period in France.
Today, the museum holds about 1,500 sculptures, 800 paintings, and 20,000 drawings, plus furniture, ceramics, posters, and original records. It also contains a number of African and overseas works from the former Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, as well as works by architects Le Corbusier, Tony Garnier, André Lurçat, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Auguste Perret, and Jean Prouvé; designers Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Js Leleu; and notable residents including André Malraux.
Who else in the world of Music and culture, personified that era better than songwriter Cole Porter.

No comments: