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André-Charles Boulle at Chantilly
08th June 2024
We thought about it, we imagined it, we dreamt about it, some of us no longer believed in it, well you can rest assured, the great exhibition dedicated to the cabinetmaker André Charles Boulle has finally arrived at the Château de Chantilly and you can discover it now...
📆 It runs from 8 June to 6 October 2024 in the Grands Appartements des Princes de Condé at the Château de Chantilly.
What can I say? Around fifty carefully selected pieces bringing together a corpus of drawings, engravings, bronzes and, of course, furniture from the world's greatest collections are brought togethe…
"De tous bois": when the Hache legacy meets contemporary design
25th April 2026
🔥 That’s it – the Hache family is making a grand return to Grenoble!
Last evening marked the preview and official opening of the exhibition ‘De tous bois. The Hache Cabinetmakers and Contemporary Design’ at the Musée Dauphinois in Grenoble, and I’m already immensely proud to see this project come to fruition.
The result of two years of collaboration with the MAD Paris, this exhibition offers a rare dialogue between the genius of the Hache dynasty in the 18th century and that of contemporary designers, across a 650 m² exhibition space.
This unique project presents exceptional piece…
En avril, ne te découvre pas d’un fil !
17th April 2024
This old adage is perfectly suited to the season and is also ideal for illustrating what I'm going to talk about today.
Do you know Louis Auzoux?
Well, no, he's not an 18th-century cabinetmaker, or even a carpenter, but he is a 19th-century French anatomist... And that's just the beginning!
In the 1820s, he perfected a technique for making anatomical models from papier-mache that could be handled and taken apart (the ancestor of ExploVision).
In 1828, he set up his manufacturing workshops in Saint-Aubin-d'Écrosville, in the Eure region of France.
Although the models were not readily …
The lock that didn’t like thieves: immerse yourself in the ‘Flops?!’ exhibition at the MUAM
15ty October 2025
📅Don’t miss the latest exhibition at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, running from 14 October 2025 to 17 May 2026 📅.
This unique exhibition, entitled “Flops?!”, is dedicated to one of the great forgotten aspects of the history of innovation: failure.
It invites the public to explore, with curiosity and humour, the (sometimes necessary) setbacks that punctuate the journeys of inventors and engineers.
As well as a whole host of objects, each as bizarre as the next, you’ll be able to take a closer look at one of them in particular: “The Snitch Lock”.
But what on earth is this thing?
T…
Marie-Antoinette's forgotten drawer
04th April 2024
Sometimes I can miss certain details when I'm measuring a piece of furniture. That's why I take a lot of photos (no matter how insignificant) where this "forgotten detail" might appear.
I use these shots to "check" my modelling, sometimes to complete it, but also occasionally to "scratch my head" for a while.
That's what happened with a photo I took a bit "at random" in 2023 during the measurement of Marie-Antoinette's second travel "nécessaire" kept at the Musée International de la Parfumerie in Grasse. A small detail caught my attention and I scratched my head for a while!
As som…
André-Charles Boulle at The Wallace Collection
10th Febuary 2025
Following the exhibition on André-Charles Boulle at the Château de Chantilly which ran until 6 October, the Wallace Collection (in London) is organising a smaller retrospective on the cabinetmaker, this time focusing on one of his less well-known specialities: clocks.
Indeed, the Wallace Collection holds 5 magnificent clocks that you can discover in the Housekeeper's Room on the ground floor.
📆 Save the date :
Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle
November 27 to March 2, 2025
It's time to book a weekend in London... And what's more, it's not supposed to rain...
15th November 2024
A look back at the International Heritage Show, which took place from 24 to 27 October 2024 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
I was lucky enough once again to share a booth with Henry-Bertrand Collet, a cabinetmaker friend of mine, with whom we displayed a stunning Tric-Trac table by Nicolas Grevenich (1735-1820).
On this occasion, the public had the pleasure of discovering the astonishing mechanism of this table on an ExploVision touch terminal, where the piece of furniture could be completely dismantled!
Wow effect guaranteed!