Chaumet Botanical Exhibition At The Beaux-Arts De Paris

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Chaumet is presenting its new exhibition, Botanical, on the Beaux-Arts de Paris till September 4. The exhibition proposes a placing dialogue between the Maison’s distinctive jewellery creations and a botanical imaginative and prescient that resonates with all types of artwork, creating an immersive expertise that recounts the fantastic thing about crops throughout 7,000 years of artwork. 

Celebrating nature in artwork, the Botanical exhibition options practically 400 artworks – work, sculptures, textiles, images and furnishings – alongside 100 jewellery items from Chaumet and different jewelers.  Scientific works and creations by botanists and artists mix for a discovery of the extraordinary fantastic thing about nature. Maria Merian and Émile Gallé are joined by Delacroix, Arcimboldo and Monet, in addition to Redouté, Eva Jospin, Le Corbusier and Anna Atkins. To curate the exhibition, Chaumet referred to as on Marc Jeanson, botanical director of the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech.

The distinctive choice of works celebrating nature transcends chronology, mixing primitive objects and modern takes, lots of them on mortgage from prestigious establishments together with the Muséum Nationwide d’Histoire Naturelle, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée du Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Albion Artwork Assortment in Tokyo.

Nature and botanical motifs determine on the coronary heart of Chaumet’s heritage. The exhibition fuses jewelry-making savoir-faire and artwork historical past within the distinctive setting of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Chaumet has loved a particular relationship with the college for a few years and has offered funding for the “Dessin Further Giant” chair since its  creation in 2020.

The exhibition is open to the general public by reservation from Wednesday by Sunday, 12pm-8pm. Extra data is out there on the Chaumet web site.