The Arts Society Ashdown Forest - Riviera Paradise: Art, Design and Pleasure in the 1920s
Thursday, 10 April 2025
- Time
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Venue
- Crowborough Community Centre, Crowborough, TN6 1FE
- Price
- Members free. Non-members £7.
Since the C19th, English high society had ‘wintered over’ on the Cote d’Azur, but always left by April. In the 1920s however an intoxicating mix of artists, writers, musicians and international visitors created a new summer season.
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The Arts Society Ashdown Forest is delighted to welcome Mary Alexander who will talk about the Riviera in the 1920s. Suntans and sportswear became de rigeur in the chic new coastal resorts, villas and hotels. A liberating playground of ideas across the visual design arts was stimulated by impresarios Serge Diaghilev and Paul Poiret. Traditional boundaries were torn down. Matisse. Picasso, Dufy, Cocteau and Chanel merged the worlds of fashion, theatre and interiors. Cole Porter and Scott Fitzgerald introduced an American perspective and attracted an influential new set of discerning patrons and collectors.
Venue
Crowborough Community Centre
Pine Grove,
Crowborough
TN6 1FE
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