Exhibitions from the museum's collection currently available for travel: 

In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze & Weaver and the American Hotel

In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze & Weaver and the American Hotel is available beginning Fall 2008 for a 12-week booking period. The participation fee is $50,000 plus shipping. The show consists of approximately 30 presentation drawings, 30 architectural plans, ephemera, photographs, and decorative arts. A catalogue, published by Princeton Architectural Press, will accompany the exhibition.

FEATURED OBJECT:
Hotel Pierre, New York (Schultze & Weaver, 1930), 1928
Gouache on board
47 x 18 7/8 inches (119.4 x 47.9 centimeters)
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida,
The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
WFIU-18
Photo: Silvia Ros

For more information, contact: Marianne Lamonaca, Associate Director, Curatorial Affairs and Education, 305.535.2627 or e-mail lamonaca@fiu.edu; or Lisa Li, Curatorial Assistant, 305.535.2623 or e-mail lisa@thewolf.fiu.edu.

Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s

Fashioning the Modern French Interior is an exciting new exhibition that examines French interior design of the 1920s focusing on limited-edition luxury portfolios created using a traditional stencil technique known in France as pochoir. The revitalization of the pochoir technique offered a novel graphic approach to depict and disseminate modern interiors and decorative patterns to the public, artfully promoting new design while eschewing commercialization. The vibrant images in these portfolios document the furnishings and interiors of the leading designers of the time including Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Robert Mallet-Stevens, and Eileen Gray, among others, and provide a lens for understanding the tensions that existed within France at the time regarding matters of style and taste in interior decoration. The exhibition elucidates how the choice of the pochoir technique reinforced the designers’ conception of the modern interior from the traditional to the avant-garde. The spectacular color images from the portfolios present a great variety of solutions that will delight today’s audiences.

Fashioning the Modern French Interior is available beginning summer 2008 for a 12-week booking period. The participation fee is $12,000 and the estimated prorated shipping fee is $3,000. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior (Princeton Architectural Press).

For further information, please contact:

Sarah Schleuning Curator 305.535.2686 sarah@thewolf.fiu.edu

Lisa Li Curatorial Assistant 305.535.2623 lisa@thewolf.fiu.edu