Bonbonnière for Madame Agnès, Paris, circa 1925

Jean Dunand significantly impacted the world of fashion in the 1920s by creating jewelry, decorating accessories and collaborating with fashion designers such as Jeanne Lanvin and Madeleine Vionnet, incorporating his signature lacquered metal and eggshell inlay designs into everyday objects.

He met Parisian milliner Madame Agnès in the early 1920s and the two quickly started to collaborate extensively and exclusively, Dunand decorating the designer's showroom with lacquered walls and furniture, creating fashion accessories, decorative panels, and creating vases for her booth at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

Agnès later commissioned Dunand to decorate her studio and personal Parisian apartment with sumptuous gilt lacque arraché furniture, published in La Renaissance de l'art français, Paris, April 1927.