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Parsons Paris is a degree-granting art school under Parsons The New School for Design on rue de Saint-Roch in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in Paris, France. == History == ''The New York Times'' has described the new Paris campus as "both the oldest and newest overseas branch of an American university". In 1921, Frank Alvah Parsons opened the Paris Ateliers of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (which was renamed Parsons School of Design after its director in 1941).〔 The following year, the school made its home on the oldest planned square in Paris, the Place des Vosges. Parsons stated: "France, more than any country, has been the center of artistic inspiration since the sixteenth century… The value of associating with, and working from, the finest examples of the periods in decorative art, the adaptation of which is our national problem, needs no comment." The school offered courses in architecture, interior decoration, stage design, and costume design, adding poster and graphic design a year later. Among its supporters were interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe and author and interior designer Edith Wharton. In 1931, interior designer Jean-Michel Frank led a group of students at the Paris Ateliers to create an icon of modern design, the Parsons Table. After teaching advertising, illustration, and stage and costume design, Van Day Truex became director of the Paris Ateliers in 1934. An influential voice of 20th-century American design, Truex later became the design director of Tiffany & Company, where he developed the firm’s signature interiors and graphics. Guest critics at the Paris Ateliers during this period include fashion designers Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Jean Patou. After closing before the onset of World War II in 1939, Parsons restarted its activities in Paris in 1948 offering a summer course combining travel and study. What was now Parsons The New School for Design reopened the School (at first with a summer abroad program in the late 1970s); it became known as Parsons Paris. In 1980, Parsons expanded its Paris program, entering into an educational partnership with the American College in Paris (now American University in Paris), to offer Bachelor of Fine Arts and study-abroad options. Beginning in 1986, students matriculating in the Parsons Paris program were eligible to receive a degree from Parsons The New School for Design. But when the contract between Parsons The New School for Design and Parsons Paris expired in 2008, the former decided not to renew it. At the expiration of the agreement, Parsons notified the Paris school that it could not continue to use the "Parsons" name any longer. The Paris school challenged that decision and brought the legal proceeding before the International Chamber of Commerce who ruled in favor of Parsons The New School for Design.〔http://www.newschoolfreepress.com/2012/10/24/well-always-have-paris-and-shanghai-and-mumbai/〕 That institution, now called the Paris College of Art, is no longer affiliated with The New School. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parsons Paris (2013)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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