Home to France's heads of state until 1870, the Tuileries Palace boasted a sumptuous throne room at its center, which Louis ⅩⅤⅢ, succeeding Napoleon, had completely renovated, to designs by Jean-Démosthène Dugourc. With the fall of the Second Empire, the room's decorative elements were placed in the...
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Home to France's heads of state until 1870, the Tuileries Palace boasted a sumptuous throne room at its center, which Louis ⅩⅤⅢ, succeeding Napoleon, had completely renovated, to designs by Jean-Démosthène Dugourc. With the fall of the Second Empire, the room's decorative elements were placed in the reserves of the Mobilier national. Identified and restored one by one, they enabled the room to be reconstituted in the Musée du Louvre in 2024.
Through the sparkling bronzes, gilded woods and sumptuous silks of this royal décor, the present work invites us to discover the decorative inventiveness of the rules of Louis ⅩⅤⅢ and Charles Ⅹ, as well as a series of masterpieces by great Parisian craftsmen - Thomire, Jacob-Desmalter, Picot... -and from the Lyonnais silk industry, as well as from the factories of La Savonnerie, Beauvais and Les Gobelins.
When you unfold the cover flaps, you can see the entire throne room "as if you were there".
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