The journey begins in the nave of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Here, the opening is masterful: more than a thousand pieces display all the vitality of Art Deco, from Ruhlmann's curved furniture to Dunand's glassware, from Cartier jewelry to Sonia Delaunay's textiles. We move from an authentic Orient Express cabin from the Roaring Twenties to the futuristic visions of a train reinvented by Maxime d'Angeac, between memory and projection. Everything is there: luxury, modernity, invention… Art Deco in its full foundational power.

MAD PARIS (MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS)
From October 21, 2025 to April 26, 2026
107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 - Metro: Palais Royal (Lines 1/7)
Tue. to Sun. 11am-6pm, Thu. until 6pm 9 p.m., closed on Mondays.
Price: €15 - Reduced price: €10 - Free for under 26s
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A striking symbol of the transition from Art Nouveau to Art Deco, La Samaritaine juxtaposes Frantz Jourdain's lush, verdant façade with Henri Sauvage's straight, glass-fronted lines, added in the 1920s. This department store unites both exuberance and geometric rigor in a single building, offering Parisians a daily showcase of the Modernity.

LA SAMARITAINE
9 rue de la Monnaie, 75001 – Metro: Pont Neuf (Line 7)

Just a stone's throw away, LV Dream plays the contemporary luxury card. Antique trunks and current creations converse in a flamboyant scenography: graphic displays, clean lines, geometric patterns. Here, Art Deco is not a memory but a living source, continuing to inspire fashion and the decorative arts.

LV DREAM
2 rue du Pont Neuf, 75001 – Metro: Pont Neuf (Line 7)
Every day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Free admission
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At the Forney Library, the tone changes. In the Gothic setting of the Hôtel de Sens, there are no monumental pavilions, but rather the intimacy of shop windows. La Samaritaine, Printemps, Galeries Lafayette: behind their facades, artists, decorators, and artisans were inventing an art of everyday life. The exhibition brings together posters, drawings, archives, and unique pieces that tell the story of how Art Deco transitioned from the exceptional to everyday life, offering us an aesthetic to inhabit.

FORNEY LIBRARY
From November 4 to February 28, 2026
1 rue du Figuier, 75004 – Metro Saint-Paul (Line 1)
Tue. to Sat. 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., closed Sun. and Mon.
Free admission Free

Long before 1925, Art Deco was already making its presence felt on Avenue Montaigne. With the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, inaugurated in 1913 by Auguste Perret, Paris discovered its first major reinforced concrete building. Its understated façade, geometric lines, and lack of ornamentation marked a radical break with the Belle Époque. This building, which once resonated with the music of Stravinsky and the dance of Nijinsky, thus became the founding manifesto of a new aesthetic, heralding Art Deco modernity.

THÉÂTRE DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
15 avenue Montaigne, 75008 – Metro: Alma-Marceau (Line 9)

They have faced each other since 1937, separated by an alley but born of the same breath. The Museum of Modern Art and the Palais de Tokyo, inaugurated for the International Exhibition, embody monumental Art Deco in its most solemn form. Colonnades, bas-reliefs, colossal volumes: everything here breathes Paris's desire to assert its artistic grandeur in the interwar period. On the MAM side, the flamboyant frescoes of Dufy and La Fresnaye still set the walls ablaze; On the Palais de Tokyo side, the same light-colored stone now houses contemporary art, as if the utopia of the 1930s found an extension in current experimentation.

MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE PARIS / PALAIS DE TOKYO
11-13 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 – Metro: Alma-Marceau (Line 9) or Iéna (Line 9)

Facing the Eiffel Tower, the Palais de Chaillot unfurls its monumental wings like a stage Open. Built for the 1937 International Exposition, it embodies Art Deco in all its theatrical power: immense colonnades, bas-reliefs, mosaics, and gilded inscriptions create a total decor.

CITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND HERITAGE
From October 22 to March 29, 2026
1 Place du Trocadéro, 75116 – Metro: Trocadéro (Lines 6/9)
Open daily except Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursdays until 1 p.m. 9 p.m.
Price: €13 – Reduced price: €10 – Free for under 26s

Under the monumental vaults of the Palais de Chaillot, the Cité de l’architecture exhibition pays tribute to the seminal event of 1925. Lost pavilions, visionary projects, spectacular models: an entire ephemeral Paris comes back to life, from Perret's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées to the audacious designs of Le Corbusier and Laprade.

CITÉ DE L’ARCHITECTURE ET DU HERITAGE
From October 22 to March 29, 2026
1 Place du Trocadéro, 75116 – Metro: Trocadéro (Lines 6/9)
Open daily except Tuesdays, 11am-7pm, Thursdays until 9pm

Boulevard Poissonnière, no one can escape its monumental façade with vertical lines, surmounted by a tower that seems to defy the sky. Inaugurated in 1932, the Grand Rex is the largest cinema in Europe, an Art Deco temple that proclaims its dream from the street. Here, Art Deco unfolds in its most popular and lavish dimension: a jewel of concrete and light, inhabited by majestic columns, frescoes inspired by oriental palaces, gilded balconies and starry ceilings. The cinema becomes a modern cathedral.

LE GRAND REX
1 bd Poissonnière, 75002 – M° Bonne Nouvelle (8/9)

With its discreet façade on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, one would never suspect that the Salle Pleyel hides an Art Deco gem. Inaugurated in 1927 by Jacques Marcel Auburtin, it combines geometric lines, precious materials, and decorative frescoes in understated elegance. Its large hall, designed like a ship's hull, offers exceptional acoustics that made it a favorite venue for the greatest orchestras.

PLEYEL HALL
252 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 – Metro: Ternes (Line 2)

At 76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the Galerie Charpentier embodies the elegance of the 1930s: precious woodwork, theatrical volumes, and a hushed atmosphere. A fashionable hotspot yesterday, an auction house today with Sotheby's, it retains the prestige of a refined Paris where Art Deco shone as brightly in the decor as in the collections.

GALERIE CHARPENTIER (SOTHEBY'S)
76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 – Metro: Miromesnil (lines 9/13)

A welcome pause on Boulevard Raspail: behind its mosaics and wrought ironwork, the legendary Left Bank palace displays the elegance of the 1920s 30 right down to the plate. From Matisse to Joyce, the greatest have been regulars here. Today, the brasserie still extends the Art Deco spirit in a restored setting: polished marbles, period mirrors and revisited classic dishes – sole meunière, flambéed lobster, gratinéed onion soup. A complete journey, between architecture and gastronomy.

HOTEL LUTETIA
45 boulevard Raspail, 75006 – Metro Sèvres-Babylone (lines 10/12)
Dishes from €40

Just steps from the Luxembourg Gardens, Ossip Zadkine's former workshop reveals a little-known facet of the sculptor: his connection with the Decorative arts. For the centenary, more than 90 works – sculptures, objects, furniture – retrace the years 1920-1930, a period when Zadkine explored lacquer, gilding, and color, in dialogue with decorators such as Eileen Gray, Marc du Plantier, and André Groult. Among the key pieces, the Golden Bird, a plaster sculpture gilded with gold leaf, and the Hermaphrodite Torso, created with Groult, embody this decorative turning point. The exhibition also evokes the Pergola de la Douce France, a building created for the 1925 International Exposition, whose models and sketches recall its ambition.

ZADKINE MUSEUM
From November 15, 2025 to April 12, 2026
100 bis rue d’Assas, 75006 – M° Vavin (4)
Tues. to Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., closed Mon.
Price: €11 – TR: €9 – Free -18 years

A few streets away, the Giacometti Foundation is housed in a private mansion designed by Paul Follot, a renowned Art Deco decorator. Behind the elegant facade, period parquet floors, ironwork, and stained glass windows create a precious setting where Giacometti's slender sculptures now converse. A refined setting that makes the encounter between decor and artistic modernity palpable.

GIACOMETTI INSTITUTE
5 rue Victor-Schœlcher, 75014 – M° Raspail (4/6)
Open daily. Except Tue. 10am-6pm
Price: €9 – Reduced rate: €3 – Free for under 18s

Built in 1931 by the architect Michel Roux-Spitz, the building that houses the Atelier Jean Perzel is itself an Art Deco manifesto. Its showroom displays a collection of iconic lighting fixtures – wall lights, floor lamps, ceiling lights – still made on site with the same refinement for nearly a century. These timeless creations, found at the Museum of Modern Art, the Cité Universitaire, and in Parisian embassies, remind us how light was one of the essential luxuries of the 1930s.

JEAN PERZEL STUDIO
3 rue de la Cité Universitaire, 75014 – RER B (Cité Universitaire)

A Short Stop at La Coupole, an Art Deco temple inaugurated in 1927. Columns painted by 33 artists, dazzling mosaics, The atmosphere is breathtaking: it's easy to see why Picasso, Man Ray, and Josephine Baker were regulars. Even today, you can sit down to a seafood platter or toast with a signature cocktail, such as the Simone B with gin and champagne, or the MISTINGUETTE with lemon and pistachio. Here, Art Deco is experienced as much as it is savored.

LA COUPOLE
102 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75014 – Metro: Vavin (Line 4)
Oyster bar from €20 for 9 - Cocktails from €13.50

To the east of Paris, the Palais de la Porte Dorée unfolds like a sculpted manifesto. Built for the Colonial Exhibition of 1931, it erects its monumental bas-reliefs by Alfred Janniot into a living fresco: elephants, palm trees, corals, a whole exotic bestiary engraved in stone. Inside, marble, mosaics, and ironwork create a fully immersive experience, reminding us how Art Deco masterfully combined the monumental and the decorative.

PALAIS DE LA PORTE DORÉE
293 avenue Daumesnil, 75012 – Metro: Porte Dorée (Line 8)

Spanning 3,000 m², the Musée des Années 30 immerses us in a Boulogne-Billancourt transformed into the capital of Art Deco. Paintings, sculptures, furniture, models, and architectural archives recreate the effervescence of the interwar period. We encounter canvases by Maurice Denis, monumental sculptures by Landowski, the Martel brothers, and Despiau, and refined furniture by Ruhlmann, Leleu, and Sue et Mare. Between social realism, renewed sacred art, and triumphant modernity, we observe the mirror of an era that believed in progress through art and elegance.

MUSEUM OF THE 1930s
28 av. André Morizet, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt – Metro: Marcel Sembat (Line 9)
Tuesday to Sunday, 11am-6pm, closed Monday
Price: €5 – Reduced rate: €3.50 – Free for under 18s
Final stop at the Folies Bergère
The last stop on this tour is the Folies Bergère. Its monumental golden mosaic façade, an Art Deco masterpiece by Maurice Pico from 1926, shines like a festive totem in the Parisian night. Inside, everything exudes geometric elegance: the stylized ironwork, the endless mirrors, the clean lines framing the stage. It was here that Josephine Baker, wearing her famous banana belt, caused a scandal and entered into legend, transforming the venue into the ultimate symbol of the Roaring Twenties. Even today, the theater retains this air of extravagance, a blend of velvet and gilding, like an invitation to plunge into the nocturnal revelry of the 1920s.  
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FOLIES BERGÈRE
32 rue Richer, 75009 – Metro: Cadet (7) / Grands Boulevards (8/9)