The Arts Menagers, was a public exhibition that provided the French with information about all aspects of domestic management, furnishing, and decoration.
Francis Bernard was one of the members of the Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM), a trade group founded in 1925, which also included other well known artists such as Cassandre and Jean Carlu. The group tended to embraced the innovative spirit of the "machine aesthetic" found in the art deco movement.