Much like his friends and colleagues of the Nabis, Georges d'Espagnat was keenly interested in the decorative possibilities of modern art and the creation of a modern interior. While Vuillard, Bonnard, A. André and Denis had launched their careers with a commission to complete tableware and stained-glass designs for the art dealer and Art-Nouveau originator Sigfried Bing beginning in 1895, d'Espagnat began taking complete decorative commissions only after he met the group in 1898. He completed decorative commissions for the Paris apartment and villa at Villennes-sur-Seine of the major Impressionist collector Dr. Viau in 1898 (Viau owned the largest collection of Renoir in private hands and knew the Nabis painters personally), the Château ...