Ironwork
The Palais de la Porte Dorée is home to many ironwork decorations designed by renowned decorators, key figures in the artistic ironwork of the 1930s. Nowadays they can mainly be found in the circulation areas of the Palais.
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Lighting
At the Palais de la Porte Dorée, many lights representative of the Art Deco style were installed across the circulation areas. In the 1920s, research on light became a major preoccupation for architects and decorators (the architect of the Palais, Albert Laprade, worked on this question a lot, especially at the Garage Marbeuf), seeking to come up with rational, comfortable lighting that could create an ambiance at the same time. The publication Lux, dedicated to lighting, was launched in 1928, and in 1933 the Salon de la Lumière was created, under the auspices of the Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d’Électricité. The tastes of the time were for indirect lighting, which explains the fashion for mirrored vases (the light source is hidden), lamps with an upside-down cone (echoing a lotus flower, a fashionable motif since the new wave of Egyptomania following the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922), or wall lights, which project soft light onto the ceiling or walls. The 1931 Colonial Exposition provided the opportunity to experiment with many types of artificial lighting to illuminate the monuments at night.
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann
A key figure in Art Deco aesthetics, Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, one of the most famous decorators of the 1930s, designed all the furniture in the Africa Salon at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, the state room which, during the 1931 Colonial Exposition, served as the reception office of the Minister of the Colonies, Paul Reynaud.
Eugène Printz
One of the great names of the Art Deco movement, Eugène Printz conceived of and designed all the furniture in the Asia Salon at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, a state room which, during the 1931 Colonial Exposition, served as the reception office of Maréchal Lyautey, the exposition’s general commissioner.
Jean Dunand
One of the great names of the Art Deco movement, Jean Dunand (1877-1942) was a multi-disciplinary artist : a decorator, sculptor, brassworker, cabinetmaker, mosaicist and painter, of Swiss origin, who introduced France to the lacquer technique, to which he himself was initiated by a Japanese master in 1912. He used this technique to create ten lacquer panels that would decorate the library at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in 1931.
Louis Bouquet
The fresco that decorates the Africa salon, located in the south-west angle of the Hall of Honour, was made by the Lyon-based painter Louis Bouquet (1885-1952), whose aim was to illustrate the cultural and intellectual contributions made by Africa.
Pierre-Henri Ducos de la Haille
The fresco that decorates the forum in the very centre of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, the former function room during the Colonial Exposition of 1931, was created on a surface area of over 600 m² by the painter Pierre-Henri Ducos de la Haille (1889-1972), a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and his seven assistants whose names can be read to the left of the entrance, along with those of his students.
Janniot’s bas-relief
Featuring a series of allegories, in the midst of abundant fauna and lush flora, this “stone tapestry” measuring 1,130 m 2 exalts colonial wealth. It was produced in under 2 years by Alfred Auguste Janniot, a sculptor specialised in monumental decors, and was intended as an illustration of the economic contributions made by the colonies to metropolitan France.