Maison Sonia Delaunay

The exhibition Maison Sonia. Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultané is dedicated to the applied work of Russian-French artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), with a focus on her textile design work. The accompanying catalogue includes the first scholarly essays on Sonia Delaunay's collaborations with silk industrialist Robert Perrier and couturier Jacques Heim, who were among her most important collaborators and previously unexplored. In addition, the publication provides the first overview of the role of Sonia Delaunay's simultaneous fabrics in the design of modern living and media spaces.

Ed. Katia Baudin, Waleria Dorogova, text(s) by Norman Barreau-Gély, Katia Baudin, Waleria Dorogova, Émilie Hammen, Diane Müller-Tanquerey, Pascal Rousseau, Marketa Uhlirova, Margarete Zimmermann

English

2022. 224 pp., 250 ills.

SONIA DELAUNAY (1885, Odessa–1979, Paris) was trained in St. Petersburg, Karlsruhe, and Paris around 1900, and initially established herself as a portrait painter before dedicating her work to abstraction around 1913. With her husband Robert Delaunay, she experimented with the concept of “Simultané” based on the use of intense color contrasts. During a stay in Portugal and Spain in World War I, she expanded her art to the objects of life. Back in Paris in the 1920s, she combined her ambitions in painting and design with her fashion and furnishing house “Sonia Delaunay.” Her influence continues to this day, her patterns being as modern as ever.