Maison Sonia Delaunay

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, the book, Maison Sonia Delaunay, examines the international collaborations of the world-renowned French/Russian artist, Sonia Delaunay, with entrepreneurs and artists. Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) – who Louisiana exhibited retrospectively in 2022 – is among the pioneers in the development of abstract art from the 1910s, and to a large extent also in its spread, with her colorful work across painting, textile design, clothing, advertising and book design.

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Maison Sonia Delaunay is dedicated to Sonia Delaunay as a mediator between artistic-philosophical design and the beauty of everyday life. The focus is particularly on new research in textiles, fashion and interior design.

Maison Sonia Delaunay is dedicated to Sonia Delaunay as a mediator between artistic-philosophical design and the beauty of everyday life

Sonia Delaunay's work remains as fresh and relevant today as ever. The modernist pioneer's brilliant color patterns dissolved the boundaries between fine and applied art. She further developed her painterly experiments in fashion, fabric patterns, interior design, book and object art, fusing geometric abstraction with the sculptural qualities of pure color.

Sonia Delaunay was educated in St. Petersburg, Karlsruhe and Paris around 1900 and initially established herself as a portrait painter before dedicating her work to abstraction around 1913.

Together with her husband Robert Delaunay, she experimented with the concept of "Simultané", based on the use of intense color contrasts. During a stay in Portugal and Spain during World War I, she expanded her art to include everyday objects.

Back in Paris in the 1920s, she combined her ambitions in painting and design with her fashion and furniture house, "Sonia Delaunay." Her influence continues to this day, and her designs are still as contemporary as ever.

Dimensions: H: 24.0 x W: 16.5 cm
Number of pages: 224
Language: English Authors: Katia Baudin and Waleria Dorogova (ed.)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz