Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Re-opening
Musée des Arts décoratifs, 107, rue de Rivoli, 75001,
01.44.55.57.50.
Ten years were necessary for the
Museum of Decorative Arts to make new skin. Ten years to colonize the
new spaces released by the removal of the ministry of finances,
formerly placed street of Rivoli. Inside the Museum, the central nave
finds a central place under a enhanced natural light. the mosaics of
the ground have been re-discovered and are released from an old
coating. A room of conference of 80 places will accommodate
seminars and conferences. Very spectacular are these reconstituted
apartments of style in natural size. They give us a digest of 10
various decorative kinds, of which the office library of Pierre Chareau
formerly exhibited to the International Show of 1925. Thousands of
objects are presented in the permanent galleries, all restored for the
occasion, and all lit by a natural light, counting the environment
artistic of the men of the Middle Ages at our days. The collections of
the Museum inventories more than 15.000 works. All the matters, of wood
to carbon, of the porcelain to glass fibre, tell us the usual objects
of the men, sometimes engraved with genius, like as many useful
treasures. King of the places, furniture has at all times to incarnate
the style, the old signature of the time or his leaders. We will
thus find convenient beds and, mirrors and ragmen, luminaries and
cabinets in all the variations of cabinetmakers. The art of the
table is not in remainder, forks and spoons, surtouts of tables,
crystal, teapots, always gained the favors of the goldsmiths. The seat
is in itself a small monument of interior. Sofa, marchioness, meridian,
confidant or throne, it are the modest or luxurious companion of its
transitory visitor. This museum tells us the daily newspapers of the
kings and the people. A sum of stories.
