Bandeau, Cartier Paris, 1922. Platinum, gold, round old-, single- and rose=cut diamonds, coral beads and batons, onyx rondelles and batons, tortoise shell, black enamel. Cartier Collection. Nils Herrmann, Collection Cartier © Cartier
The Dallas Museum of Art is the only place in North America where “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity” is on display, and one East Dallas resident helped curate it.
The exhibition includes over 400 objects from Cartier, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée du Louvre, the Keir Collection of Islamic Art and other international collections.
Sarah Schleuning, who has a home in the M Streets, is a co-curator of the exhibition and is the Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the DMA.
“The design strategies in the exhibition — motif, pattern, color and form — reveal the inspirations, innovations and aesthetic wonder present in the creations of the Maison Cartier,” Schleuning says in a press release. “Focused through the lens of Islamic art, the designs reveal how the Maison migrates and manifests these styles over time, as well as how they are shaped by individual creativity.”
In the early 1900s, Louis J. Cartier and his designers started experimenting with new types of design, finding inspiration in Japanese textiles, Chinese jades, Indian jewelry, and arts and architecture from the Islamic world. “Cartier and Islamic Art” includes pieces from his own collection of Persian and Indian paintings, manuscripts and other luxury objects.
Cartier jewelry, historical photographs, design drawings, archival materials and Islamic art pieces are among the items in the exhibition.
The exhibition is on display at the DMA May 14-Sept. 18.
