until Sunday September 14 2025
MAD - Les Arts Décoratifs
T : 033 (0)1 44 55 57 50
107 rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
France
An inexpensive, strong, and flexible material, bamboo is widely used in architecture and gardens. Prints, paintings, and objects illustrate the ubiquity of bamboo as a plant or used to make windows, blinds, fences, and barriers. With its structure built around emptiness, bamboo is associated with Zen Buddhism and tea practices. Associated with pine and plum blossoms, bamboo in both China and Japan represents certain qualities of the educated and literate man. The richness of the Japanese and Chinese collections at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs allows the public to discover the great variety of objects on display, most of them for the first time: stencils (katagami), basketry, prints, paintings, original drawings, wallpapers, ceramics, lacquers, bronzes, ivories and textiles.
