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Maison Pierre Frey contributes to the restoration of Queen Marie-Antoinette's interior chambers at Château de Versailles

Château de Versailles chose an extraordinary pattern to decorate the walls and furniture of the Queen's boudoir and dining room. A design with interlacing flowering branches, birds of paradise and pineapples, preserved at the Musée de la Toile de Jouy. The pineapple, nicknamed the “king of fruits” for its head of leaves evoking royal crowns, was also the chosen fruit of kings.

The archive reissue

The original document was created in 1784, it has 25 color shades, and was woodblock printed. A true masterpiece of the Manufacture d'Oberkampf in terms of its richness, design and execution, it has been entirely redesigned and screen printed by hand.

An invaluable expertise

This complex task required many stages and hundreds of hours of work, from color decomposition and frame engraving to traditional screen printing in France.

The Queen's small apartments

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With no fewer than 450 meters of fabric used to make the hangings, curtains and doors on the second floor of the Queen's chambers, the restored decor offers a tangible reality of period documents. Visitors are transported into an immersive, life-size experience.

Find the reissue of this drawing in the Braquenié - Anniversaire 1823-2023 collection

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