Art Deco: Celebrating the Centenary of the 1925 Paris Expo by Pamela Campbell-Johnston – 1st May 2025

In 1925, 16 million visitors witnessed PARIS’S EXPO – The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. What would we have seen in this landmark exhibition, if we had been one of those visitors? What drew the crowds? And how did this seminal exhibition play a fundamental role in giving rise to a new international and truly global style that we have come to know as ART DECO? Pamela will give us an insight into this significant exhibition.

 

 

 

Pamela has over 30 years of lecturing experience to undergraduates, adult groups, and to Friends and Patrons of the Royal Academy of Arts as part of the RA’s Adult Education Department.  She has also conducted numerous guided tours, residential trips and focused gallery talks on individual works of art. She specialises in British Domestic Architecture and Modern British Art – with a particular love for the 1920s and 1930s.