International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts Palais and Petit Palais, and on both banks of the Seine. There were 15,000 exhibitors from twenty different countries, and it was visited by sixteen million people during its seven-month run. The "Style Moderne" presented at the Exposition later became known as "Art Deco", after the name of the Exposition. The idea for an exhibition entirely devoted the decorative arts originally came from the Société des Artistes Décorateurs (The Society of Decorative Artists), a group founded in 1901 which included both established artists, including Eugene Grasset and Hector Guimard, as well as younger artists including Francis Jourdain, Maurice Dufrêne, Paul
González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts wooden limbs and terracotta head, dressed with fine period clothes and decked with rich accessories. Between the latest showed objects, there are Modernist works of the Valencian sculptor Benlliure and some ceramic pieces of the 20th century donated by Pablo Picasso. Displayed in the Carriage patio are the Nymphs' coach designed by Hipólito Rovira and Ignacio Vergara in 1753; an Empire style carriage, owned by the Marquis de Llanera; and a Rococo sedan chair, also of the 18th century. González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts The National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts "González Martí" (), located