Une journée au XVIIIe siècle, chronique d’un hôtel particulier at MAD, Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Published July 8, 2026
Contributed by Nouvelle Noire


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NN Swinton is used for a current exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris:

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs invites visitors to step inside the intimate world of an eighteenth-century aristocratic residence and its inhabitants – masters, servants, and household animals.

Featuring more than 550 original objects, drawn from the museum’s collections and for most of them, rarely exhibited, ‘A Day in the Eighteenth Century: Chronicle of a Parisian Townhouse’ gather all fields of expression of the decorative arts – wood panelling and wallpapers, furniture, ceramics, silverware, clothing and fashion accessories, toys, and jewellery – to recreate the life of a Parisian hôtel particulier in the 1780s.

In a cinematic, sound-filled and scented atmosphere, the visitors wander from room to room as if they were close acquaintances, friends, or privileged guests of the family.

The exhibition is curated by Ariane James-Sarazin, Chief Heritage Curator responsible for the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collections and the Nissim de Camondo collection, together with Sophie Motsch, Assistant Curator. The exhibition is designed by FREAKS Architecture.




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