Some unique creations, imagined for the Villa Kérylos.

In fact, everything in the villa had been custom made, from floor to ceiling, from the tableware to the lamps. Yet, the Villa is never a duplicate but a true creation: Théodore Reinach and Emmanuel Pontremoli had collected themes and motives to transpose them from one material to the other. The paintings on the walls of the peristyle are not duplicates of ancient frescos but adaptations of motifs painted on vases. Beyond this principle of transposition, the scenery of the Villa Kérylos are fully in accordance with their time and announce, in some ways, the Art Deco. The talent of the painters Jaulmes and Karbowsky, students of Puvis de Chavannes, has something to do with it ! 

Each element of the Villa Kérylos has been entrusted to the best craftsmen: every curtain and hanging have been embroidered by the house Ecochard, and each of them is dedicated to a room. For the tableware, Théodore Reinach ordered 150 pieces to the ceramicist Emile Lenoble, who made a set inspired by Antiquity without ever approaching plagiarism. There are no mythological scenes on the ceramics, only geometrical motifs from the ancient repertoire reflecting the motifs of the mosaics and bronzes. The only figurative representation is a wild goat, or onager, inspired by the Tyszkiewicz cup, an Etruscan object from the 7th century before Christ.