DESIGNING DREAMS

Designing Dreams: A Celebration of Léon Bakst highlights Baksts finest achievements in stage design, while also revealing his decis ive influence in the field of textile design. Conceived especially by Nick Mauss, in parallel to the exhibition design, Designing Dr eams presents in detail Bakst's drawings, costume and textile designs, previously unpublished writings on ornament and fashion, new scholarship on Baksts sources and the impact of his vision, as well as exhibition views of the scenography realized in situ by Maus s.