Paris, Brussels and back. The Art Déco period of the Baucher-Feron couple

A hundred years ago, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts took place in Paris, an event that would come to put a name to the Art Deco style. It would serve as a platform for a young Sylvie Feron (1898−1984), who exposed there. Just as her soon-to-be husband, René Baucher (1902−1983), she was a prolific student of one of the main figures of the movement, the decorative artist, theorist and educator Paul Follot (1877−1941), director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, who hired both of them for his Atelier Pomone. During this early creative period, the couple also worked for Magasins Vanderborght, in Brussels. This exhibition explores the archival material of the couple’s design of textiles, lighting, objects, carpets and furniture during that period, with a focus on this constellation of Art Deco characters and retail enterprises.
Through an intense production between Paris and Brussels, the ​“Art Deco” period of the Baucher-Feron couple would become the founding stone of their own studio and furniture shop.