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Past Special Exhibition 2024

Shiseido Art House Collection 2024
2nd phase of exhibition

・Masterpieces of Vintage Perfume Bottles 2024 ― Focusing on Lalique, Baccarat and Viard
・Selection 2024 from ‘Crafts for All of Us’ Exhibition ― From Autumn to Winter
・Sculptors Who Also Paint ― Paintings and Solid Fabrication by Sculptors

September 5(Thu) — November 23(Sat), 2024

The main feature of this 3-part exhibition was surely the Vintage Perfume Bottle Masterpieces Exhibition 2024 — which focused on such luminaries as Lalique, Baccarat, and Viard. Here, we introduced the timeless beauty of perfume bottles, which are often considered to be incomparable gems of the commercial arts.
During the period extending from the late 19th century through to the 1940s, these elegant perfume bottles were custom-made for France’s leading Parisian perfume merchants as vessels for their own products. Currently, these not only hold great significance for their highly esteemed artistic quality, but also in terms of the history of cosmetic culture and perfume history. Shiseido has been methodically collecting vintage perfume bottles since 1986, in response to a suggestion by Serge Lutens, a French creator active in a wide range of fields including fragrance, cosmetics and film.
From this collection of nearly 300 unique pieces, Shiseido’s exhibition presented approximately 100 items selected from among the most rare and valuable creations by René Lalique, the Baccarat company and Julien Viard.
The Shiseido Art House also presented Selection 2024 from the Crafts for All of Us Exhibition ― From Autumn to Winter, which reassembled carefully selected works from the complete series of Crafts for All of Us exhibitions held at the Shiseido Art House Museum between 2015 and 2023.

Simultaneously, the Sculptors Who Also Paint ― Paintings and 3D Modeling by Sculptors exhibition was also held to showcase figurative sculptures by such artists as Katsura Funakoshi, Tadayoshi Sato, and Marino Marini, together with paintings by the same artists.

Shiseido Art House Collection 2024
1st phase of exhibition

・Spring Paintings and Crafts ― Together with Poetry
・Selection 2024 from ‘Crafts for All of Us’ Exhibition ― From Spring to Summer
・Man Ray Exhibition ― A Focus on Portraits

March 1(Fri) — June 1(Sat), 2024

The Shiseido Art House’s 2024 exhibitions were divided into two phases in order to introduce a more expanded variety of works from the museum’s collection.
The main portion of the exhibition’s first phase focused on Spring Paintings and Crafts — Together with Poetry, and combined Japanese and Western paintings, works of contemporary art, and crafts from a variety of fields.
Artwork centering on the theme of early to late spring was introduced along with poems about spring written both in Japan and abroad, which brought to the present day the fundamental traditions of Japanese art, something that had been closely connected with literature since ancient times.
Of the 13 artists exhibited, nine were recipients of the Order of Culture, and in the crafts category all of these nine were also Living National Treasures (holders of important intangible cultural properties), making for a small but densely packed exhibition.
Other highlights included Selection 2024 from the Crafts for All of Us Exhibition ― From Spring to Summer, which carefully reconstructed selected works from the Crafts for All of Us exhibitions held at this very museum between 2015 and 2023. The Art House also presented the Man Ray Exhibition — A Focus on Portraits, which assembled a collection of portraits and objects, including rare original prints by Man Ray (1890 – 1976), who pursued numerous artistic activities centered on photography.