History has established Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann as the true champion of the 1925 exhibition. From March 5 to June 8, 2025, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs will open the centennial celebration of the 1925 event with
a tribute to this exceptional decorator, through drawings, wallpapers and photographs from its collections.
While he occasionally participated in the decoration through his furnishings of the Pavilion of the Society of Decorative Artists – a project of the French Embassy – it was in the Collector’s Pavilion that he created an original work.
In a building commissioned by his friend the architect Pierre Patout, and soon to be known as the Ruhlmann Pavilion, he designed an ideal home, which he completed, in coordination with with nearly fifty artists.