Paul Dumas was a Parisian designer and manufacturer of wallpapers and textiles active between 1906 and 1978.

Wallpaper by Paul Dumas, 1925.

Dumas had a studio at 24-26 Rue Notre Dame des Victoires in Paris, and a printing factory in Montreuil-sur-bois, to the east of Paris.[1][2] Dumas purchased a disused printing factory in Montreuil-sur-bois in 1906, and then built a larger factory on its land in 1913.[3][4] The factory burned down in 1913, and Dumas had a new one built the same year.[4]

Dumas was a designer of scenery and draperies for the fancy-dress balls held by Paul Poiret.[1] The Montreuil-sur-bois factory produced wallpapers for Poiret's Atelier Martine, Paul Follot, Lina de Andrada, and Lucie Renudaut, among others.[5]

Textiles produced by Paul Dumas are included in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.[6] Wallpapers produced by Dumas in included in the collections of the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris[7] and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London[8] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b Pfaff, Lilian (2 September 2019). J. R. Davidson: A European Contribution to California Modernism. Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-3-0356-1937-9.
  2. ^ Design for Industry [Series 2]. 1957.
  3. ^ "Dumas - Patrimoine - Atlas de l'architecture et du patrimoine". patrimoine.seinesaintdenis.fr.
  4. ^ a b "Usine de papiers peints Dumas, actuellement hôtel industriel et centre de formation professionnelle". www.pop.culture.gouv.fr.
  5. ^ Jackson, Lesley (8 February 2007). Twentieth-Century Pattern Design. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-712-5.
  6. ^ "Collaborations with The Wallpaper Magazine | Paul Dumas | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". collection.cooperhewitt.org.
  7. ^ "Papier peint, décor". collections.madparis.fr (in French).
  8. ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Collection PD London Stock 1927 | Dumas, Paul | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.
  9. ^ "Sample book containing wallpaper samples and photographic images". www.metmuseum.org.