Les Arts Décoratifs
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Les Arts Décoratifs is a private, non-profit museum of decorative arts located in Paris
, France
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The museum dates to 1882, when collectors with an interest in the applied arts formed the initial organization. For many years it was known as the Union centrale des Arts décoratifs (UCAD), but in December 2004 it was renamed Les Arts Decoratifs. The museum currently occupies three sites, with the Ateliers du Carrousel (art and craft workshops) active at all three:
As of 2006, its collections included approximate 357,100 works as follows:
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The museum dates to 1882, when collectors with an interest in the applied arts formed the initial organization. For many years it was known as the Union centrale des Arts décoratifs (UCAD), but in December 2004 it was renamed Les Arts Decoratifs. The museum currently occupies three sites, with the Ateliers du Carrousel (art and craft workshops) active at all three:
- 107 rue de Rivoli, in the LouvreLouvreThe Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
's Rohan and Marsan wings — Musée des Arts DécoratifsMusée des Arts DécoratifsMusée des Arts Décoratifs, a museum of the decorative arts and design, 107 rue de Rivoli, Paris 1er, France. It is part of Les Arts Décoratifs.-The museum:...
, the Musée de la Mode et du TextileMusée de la Mode et du TextileThe Musée de la Mode et du Textile is a museum of fashion and textiles located in the Louvre in the Ier arrondissement, 107, rue de Rivoli, Paris, France...
, the Musée de la PublicitéMusée de la PublicitéThe Musée de la Publicité is a museum of advertising history located in the Louvre's Rohan and Marsan wings, Ier arrondissement, at 107, rue de Rivoli, Paris, France. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged....
, and the Library des Arts Décoratifs.
- 63 rue de Monceau — the Musée Nissim de CamondoMusée Nissim de CamondoThe Musée Nissim de Camondo is a non-profit house museum located in the Hôtel Camondo, 63, rue de Monceau, at the edge of the Parc Monceau, VIIIe arrondissement, Paris, France....
in the Hôtel Camondo.
- 266 boulevard Raspail — École Camondo, school of design and interior architecture.
As of 2006, its collections included approximate 357,100 works as follows:
- Arts Décoratifs — 150,000 works from medieval furniture to contemporary design, including Empire, Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles; large collections of jewelry, toys, wallpaper, gold work, ceramics, glass, drawings and an Islamic and Oriental collection.
- Publicité — 100,000 historical and contemporary posters as well as over 20,000 French and foreign advertising films from the 1930s to the present day; radio commercials, promotional objects, packaging, etc.
- Mode et textile — 86,000 costumes, accessories, and textiles from Copts to the present day; with development of new textiles since the 14th century.
- Musée Nissim de Camondo — 1,100 works; one of the finest sets of French furniture and objets d'art from the second half of the 18th century.
- In May 2007, Les Arts Décoratifs exhibited Love & Art Children's Foundation's "L'Enfant et l'Art" collection. This art collection was created by children afflicted with cancer at the Hospital Armand Trousseau in sterilized rooms and by children in remission in Les Ateliers du Carrousel under the guidance of Love & Art's founder, artist Alécia de Menezes Seidler.