Pierre
Thiriot
(1904-1991)
Pierre Thiriot: Musée Barrois
France

Pierre Thiriot was one of the great 1920’s artistic designers in Paris, creating works for the theatre, music halls and casinos of the time, including for the Folies Bergère, and the Moulin Rouge, where in 1928 he designed the famous embroidered curtain “La Jungle”; and in 1929 he created a large decorative panel for the Casino de Paris, “Les Papillons” inspired by the music of Schumann.