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EXIBITIONS

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Expostion Fontainebleau

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From 18th and 19th century, Fontainebleau becomes a place often visited by the French middle-class, much of objects of holiday will be made out of wood of genévrier. All these memories will become a subject of collections. More...

Exibition Nice / Sorrente

13 au 28 october 2007... More...

Suisse Exibition

May 2004
Memories, Memories… It was necessary that the voyages become pleasure and approvals, and the holidays with the mode, so that in the middle of the XIX century the “memory†appears, imposes itself like an obviousness, an institution, an obligation: for its return it was necessary to bring back something to those which one left…... More...

THONET and the childrens

May 2001 Manufacturing pieces of furniture since the years 1840, Michael THONET controls the technique of wood curved in order to carry out pieces of furniture in series, thus transforming the design of the furnishing of her time for a middle-class in the search of her identity. This inventive cabinetmaker caused the evolution of the human behaviors, quite simply while allowing the 19th... More...

Trompes L'oeil

November 1992 Horns the eye or Objects Of illusion
“In the horn the eye, the artist attempted to imitate the materiality of object, its relief and to make believe in its presence. This definition highlights the perfect puerility of the horn the eye. Art consists in releasing from the vision of the matter, a feeling. I.e. an ideal†(Larousse, 1900... More...

Old baskets

October 1988
To tie, bind, braid, weave vegetable fibres are old activities like the world. The men of the Neolithic era left many traces of basket making on their potteries... More...

Pictures rehaussés

November 1986
In 1826, Nicéphore Niepce discovered the photograph. What a revolution!
To be made "draw the portrait" became for certain a play, for others an obligation, a tradition in the family festivals or a recreation of fair. In the absence of gallery of ancestors, the easy families constituted their album of family... More...

Craquelés

June 1985
White Craquelés you know... More...

  



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