David Brouzet, lead professor for Decorative Arts at IESA arts&culture, offers Master in Old Master Art students a series of visits to exceptional venues to meet art specialists.
This program corresponds to visits to workshops and manufactories that complement the sessions devoted to analyzing and commenting on works for the techniques of cabinetmaking, joinery, tapestry and ceramics.
It began with a visit to the Gobelins National Gallery, 42 Gobelins Avenue in Paris, where they were able to immerse themselves in the furniture collections of this legendary place where Charles Le Brun, painter and decorator to Louis XIV, lived when the Gobelins was a royal manufactory.
This was followed by a meeting with Charles Hooreman, a specialist in 18th-century French seating, in his workshop, where the students were able to listen to him while seated on thrones and other armchairs that belonged to important figures in French history. Finally, they ended their day with a visit to the Ateliers d’art, Chalcographies & Moulages RMN-Grand Palais located in La Plaine-Saint-Denis.
A fine program lies ahead, with the visit of the Féau & Compagnie gallery, a specialist in antique paneling, the visit of the Musée national de Céramique de Sèvres and the Ateliers de la manufacture de Sèvres.
At the end of January, they will visit the Galerie Chevalier, a specialist in antique and modern tapestry, located in the Solférino district; finally, they will end this cycle with a visit to the Atelier de Ricou, creators of painted decor and restorers of paintings and sculpted elements for historic monuments, in their exceptional private mansion located in Courbevoie.