Time Travel Decorative Art from the Kirkland Museum

June 9 - August 28, 2011

Time Travel-Decorative Art from Kirkland Museum

100+ Years of International Decorative Art

Main Gallery - Free Exhibition

Be sure to visit the Arvada Center this summer to see international decorative art from the Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Wiener Werkstätte, Bauhaus, Art Deco, and Modern styles. Much like our previous "100+ Years of Colorado Art" partnership, the Arvada Center and Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art will present objects from Kirkland Museum's extensive collection. This will be the largest decorative art exhibition from the Kirkland Museum collection that has ever been shown outside the museum.

"From Kirkland Museum's international decorative art collection of over 15,000 objects, we have chosen works the major design movements of the 20th century, allowing you to travel back in time at the Arvada Center. Furniture and other decorative art, along with paintings, are displayed salon style-making it look as if you just walked into someone's home. For this show, we have created vignettes and accessorized them by adding radios, phones, lamps and other vintage household objects," says Hugh Grant, Founding Director and Curator, Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art.

Christopher Herron, Registrar & Collections Manager at Kirkland Museum, is co-curator of Time Travel-Decorative Art from Kirkland Museum.