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Original idea and design by Roberta Martinelli and Velia Gini Bartoli
Take some items which once belonged to Napoleon, a few models ships, a smattering of drawings, watercolours, military uniforms, a coconut fountain, a paper plate, and some lead soldiers… (all on loan from the Hermès private collection and from a selection of the French capital's most important museums). Add to them a great number of Hermès scarves. And what do you get? A most remarkable exhibition.
Few people know the connection between Emile-Maurice Hermès and the myth of Napoleon. But for fifty years it was this obsession which characterised a large part of the decoration of these world famous headscarves.
This juxtaposition of two geniuses is a hymn to the beautiful and the useful.
When:
6 December, 2009 - 7 March, 2010
Where:
Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Napoleone
55100 Lucca LU
Italy
Opening times:
6 December - 7 January: every day, 10am - 6pm (except 25 December and 1 January: 3pm - 6pm)
7 January - 7 March: Wednesday - Monday, 10am - 6pm (closed Tuesdays)
Click here for further information (external link in Italian).
Click here to find out about the "Napoleon scarf", produced by Hermès in 1963.
Language
Italian
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