Take advantage of the exceptional morning opening and the presence of a mediator in the room to discover the museum’s new temporary exhibition. Between April and November 1925, the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts consecrated and baptized the style that has reigned for several years as an undisputed master: Art Deco. For the first time in the history of international exhibitions, garden art is also on the programme. About twenty ephemeral gardens punctuate the visitors' journey on the Cours-la-Reine, the esplanade and the terraces of the Invalides. Regular and geometric, giving pride to architecture and sculpture, they embody the modern French garden. The very one that André Vera, member of the jury, defined for the first time in Le Nouveau Jardin published in 1912, the same year as his articles "La nouvelle architecture" and "Le nouveau style". Vera’s wish is that this orderly and sober style, which will become Art Deco, applies to all arts. Also, the garden must be an extension of the interior: as much architectural as natural, symmetrical and proportionate. Heir to the order and clarity of the gardens of the 17th century, it must carry high its modernity and accommodate new uses such as sports. Putting his theories into practice, André Vera helped by his brother Paul created in the interwar years several private and public parks and gardens. The symmetry, the orthogonal axes, the geometric shapes, the varied colors of the plants, the strata, the sculptures, the colorful sands, but also the uncut trees around the plot, like a natural curtain not touched by man, or even the electric lighting: the gardens designed by the Vera brothers herald today’s landscape art. If most of their creations have now disappeared, their memory remains in the plans and sketches of an astonishing geometry touching abstraction and a great freshness. Game booklet for children.

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