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So youngly Guccio Gucci developed competences within the fashion field and came nearer the luxury world working into palaces.  In 1921 Gucci’s brand was founded and a first shop opened in Florence offered saddlery products, luggage and riding accessories. This first shop was followed by many others and the brand branched out quickly.

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 »

Dans la seconde moitié du 16ème siècle, Catherine de Médicis, qui est alors Régente de France, fait construire le Palais des Tuileries sur quelques terrains en friche jouxtant le Louvre. De cette résidence royale et impériale, il ne reste plus aujourd’hui que les jardins. En effet, le bâtiment a été incendié durant la Commune de… Read more »