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Fashion Jewelry Design Course

The Museum of Decorative Arts presents for the first time a selection of haute couture, ready-to-wear and jewelry pieces in the permanent galleries dedicated to design from the 20th century to the present day.

This thematic presentation pays homage to famous jewelry houses and designers. The circuit highlights the collections of the great houses of Place Vendôme: Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, but also the fertile imagination of creators and artists like Jean Desprès, Jean Schlumberger, Florence Lehmann or even Costanza and Roger Jean- Pierre who showed great creativity.

This unique tour also reveals iconic pieces from the museum’s fashion collections and devotes an important place to designers such as Paco Rabanne, Issey Miyake and Rick Owens. The big fashion houses are also represented, Balmain by Olivier Rousteing, Christian Dior by John Galliano, or even Courrèges and its artistic director Nicolas de Felice, and also, Stéphane Rolland recently entered the collections.

This exhibition allows us to take a new look at design from the post-war period to the present day, French and international, deployed in a thematic journey from Nathalie du Pasquier to Martin Szekely, from Jean Prouvé to Charlotte Perriand, via Michael Graves , Roger Tallon and contemporaries Marc Newson and Pierre Charpin. It thus highlights the creative and historical links between the disciplines of Decorative Arts.

This visit shows the games of correspondence between forms, techniques and approaches revealed by the selection of works. Another way to sharpen your perspective and approach contemporary creation!

April 3 – November 10 novembre, 2024

MAD

107 rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris

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The MET in Louvre

Dialogues of oriental antiquities

The Department of Oriental Antiquities hosts ten major works from the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York, currently closed for comprehensive renovation work. The Louvre was thus able to design with the Met an unprecedented dialogue between these two collections which will take place within the permanent rooms of oriental antiquities.

Dated between the end of the 4th millennium BC and the 5th century AD, the Met’s works, exceptional guests, introduce remarkable correspondences with the collections of the Louvre, that is, together they form a pair brought together for the first time on this occasion, or that they complement each other due to the specificities linked to the history of each of the two collections. From Central Asia to Syria, often passing through Iran and Mesopotamia, these collection dialogues allow us to (re)discover these multi-millennial works and the stories to which they bear witness in a different way.

February 29, 2024 – September 28, 2025

MUSEE DU LOUVRE

AILE Richelieu et Aile Sully, niveau 0

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In the Seine

Objects found from prehistory to the present day

In 2020, in Clichy-la-Garenne (Paris suburbs), a team of prehistorians from Inrap (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) is carrying out a preventive excavation on a plot close to the banks, affected by a real estate program. Under four meters of modern embankments, they discover the history of the ancient bed of the Seine, dated between −85,000 and −25,000 years before our era (Paleolithic). During this period, the river bed is very wide and dotted with sandy banks. The banks are gently sloping and the sand islands allow animals and human groups to cross it in places. The climate is cold and windy, and the landscape, dominated by a steppe of tall grasses, grasses and a few rare shrubs, is roamed by large mammals: reindeer, horses, bison and woolly rhinoceroses.

The river which has shaped Paris from the first human settlements to the present day has received numerous objects that have fallen, thrown away, lost, or moved by the currents. They all bear witness to the history of the Seine, its evolution, its developments and its landscapes, but also its successive populations, their lifestyles, their beliefs or their struggles. Presented chronologically, these discoveries are also an opportunity to explain the scientific methods used in the interpretation and dating of archaeological remains and objects.

The exhibition is structured around four chronological periods and several themes chosen from archaeological discoveries linked to the Seine. Firstly, there are human settlements from prehistoric times, on the banks of the river, then in Antiquity, the time of its first developments. The medieval and modern periods reveal weapons, ex-votos and waste, while the Seine today still provides us with chance finds, such as pieces of bridges. These objects bear witness to the stories of men and women who built their daily lives with the Seine, whether Neanderthal hunters or the pious and superstitious Parisian people.

January 31, 2024 – February 1st, 2025

CRYPTE ARCHEOLOGIQUE DE L’ILE DE LA CITE

7 place Jean Paul II 75004 Paris

01 55 42 50 10

Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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