Mise en Scène: Illustrating French Interiors combines paintings of interior spaces across Île-de-France with short writing passages that provide historical context and commentary. The book features ten different locations—from a formal ancien régime palace on the Place de la Concorde to a 1950s home in the western suburbs of Paris. Even across time periods, there is a certain gôut français that inhabits all of these interiors. 

The paintings and research for this book were made possible by a two-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (September-October 2024). My time at the Cité was generously funded by the John T. Milliken Foreign Travel MFA award from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis (2024).