Now LA Hank members can experience this wonderful traveling exhibit NY members got to enjoy at the MET. 

See how works of 18th-century French decorative arts informed the residents of Beauty and the Beast’s castle and Sleeping Beauty’s enchanting forest at this assembly of Disney-inspiring works.

“Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts” has put about 50 works of European art and design on display at the Huntington. Those centuries-old pieces—porcelain figures and Rococo candlesticks, among them—sit alongside more contemporary, heavily French-inspired production artworks from both Disney movies and theme parks.

The exhibition starts its focus on Walt Disney himself: his first trip to France following World War I, a later visit to Paris in 1935, and a collection of European miniatures—and how all of these informed his work on animated shorts and features, as well as the generations of animators that followed after his death. 

Let's enjoy an afternoon of enchantment, and cap it off after the exhibit with some tea or coffee, and some animated conversation.

The cost of the ticket is the standard Senior price is $25,  but this one is on us. We can't wait to meet some new Hank members on the West Coast!

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Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts. -The Huntington FREE!

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