From the start of explorations for the “New World” or South Pacific Islands, mariners brought many “souvenirs” from their trip. Europeans are passionate for this far away civilisations and the wealthier get their own cabinet of curiosities. That was how a first temporary ethnographic Museum gathering many private collections opened its doors in Paris in… Read more »
The Branly quay located along the left side of the Seine’s edge develop through Paris, from the Alma bridge until the Bir-Hakeim bridge. Before the 18th century, the Swans island gathering several islets were linked to the edge with a bridge overhanging a small canal that has been filled in 1780. It was over an… Read more »
It was on the middle of the 19th century that the young Louis Vuitton decided to begin a briefcase maker and to produce travel chest for the elegant Parisian customers. His creations quickly got a brilliant success especially with Empress Eugenie and the French gentry which enable Louis Vuitton to open his first shop into… Read more »