Cabarets • Degas • Toulouse-Lautrec
The Belle Époque Collector Set brings together three perspectives on late 19th-century Paris: cabaret culture, Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Each deck explores a different aspect of the artistic life of Belle Époque Paris. Cabarets celebrates the rise of poster art, where artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret transformed advertising into a new form of public visual culture. Degas captures modern Paris through careful composition, drawing and psychological observation, from ballet studios to cafés and the rhythms of everyday life. Toulouse-Lautrec records the energy of Montmartre nightlife, where performers, cabarets and café-concerts became the subjects of some of the most recognisable images of modern graphic design.
Each deck is a collection of 54 carefully selected works, capturing a moment when Paris became a centre of modern entertainment, illustration and artistic experimentation. The boundaries between fine art, popular culture and commercial design began to shift, creating a visual language that still shapes graphic art today.
Together, these decks reveal the world that gave rise to modern poster art: a city of theatres, cafés and changing social life, where artists transformed everyday spectacle into enduring images.
Explore the individual decks:
Cabarets Playing Cards
Edgar Degas Playing Cards
Toulouse-Lautrec Playing Cards
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