RIDING HIGH: Parfums de Marly has partnered with the Louvre to help restore a wing of the museum’s Decorative Arts department, called the Cressent rooms, chockablock with 18th-century masterpieces. “The golden age of perfumery, the 18th century, also represents the apogee of refinement and the French art de vivre,” said Julien Sprecher, founder and artistic director … Read more
PARIS — Mad for 18th-century interiors, Karl Lagerfeld frequently visited the Louvre, knew its holdings by heart, and drew inspiration from its sumptuous furniture and lacquered screens. In January, some of the late German designer’s haute couture and métiers d’art creations for Chanel all that inspired will invade the storied Paris museum, which is mounting … Read more
Drenched in gilded features, the gallery is embellished by myth-laden murals on its vaulted ceilings. Most prominent among them is Apollo Slays the Python, by French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), which depicts the Greek god Apollo in a torrid battle with a serpentine beast. The Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque is decorated by a … Read more
