Victor Hugo’s interior architecture on display in Paris

While Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is remembered chiefly as a poet, writer and committed political figure, he is less often seen as an interior architect and designer. A new exhibition, “Hugo the decorator,” at the Maison de Victor Hugo, on view through April 26, 2026, in Paris, explores this lesser-known side of the celebrated author.

Gérard Audinet, the exhibition’s curator and director of the Maisons de Victor Hugo in Paris and in…