Cartier at the Deco Arts: a masterful course in the history of Islamic art

Going from architecture to miniature, from fabric to ceramic, from the tile covering mosques and distant palaces to the precious object of the 1930s, this is the voyage to the Orient offered by the exhibition "Cartier et les arts of Islam ”which opens this morning, maelstrom of knowledge and treasures at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.

One of the smallest of these treasures, a cigarette case created by Cartier in 1930, with its lapis lazuli circles ticked with turquoise microrectangles, measures only 8.7 cm high, 5.6 cm wide and 1.9 cm thick (Cartier Collection).

However, it becomes the enormous photograph so modern, not to say design, which covers the facade of the museum, overlooking the rue de Rivoli.

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This XXL enlargement shows both the technical perfection of the object and the direction of the museum research underlying this wonderful exhibition: the ocelli (small eye) of Turkish Iznik tiles from the 17th century or Syrian ceramics from Damascus from the 16th century symbolized

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