Paris Museum of Decorative Arts is located in the west wing of the Louvre, and it is no accident: for centuries the French way of life was considered high art.

This museum - the only one in France, representing the techniques and materials of decorative art from the Middle Ages to modern times. Its funds about 150 000 exhibits, from which visitors can see the 6000, exhibited on the basis of history: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, XVII-XVIII century, XVIII-XIX century, Art Nouveau, Art Deco ... and so on until today. Is there also thematic exhibitions - wood, jewelry, toys.

The collection housed here in 1905, consists mainly of furniture, glassware, carpets, glass, jewelry, clothing. In all of this worth seeing France since the XVII century set the tone in European decorative arts. Here was born the "grand style" of Louis XIV, Versailles, for a long time defined the role of the decor in the interior. France gave the world the refined technique, named after their founders - André Charles Boulle furniture maker, dyer Tapestry.

France, a country of deliberate and manifest in all the details of the decorative mind, to strengthen the principle of which was attended by great creators. The dominance of modernism in the first quarter of the 20th century is connected with the name of the genius of Le Corbusier. Mid-Century provides excellent Leger and Picasso ceramics, carpets and posters of Dufy, Matisse's stained glass windows. The interiors of the Parisian airports, courtrooms, UNESCO, Paris Radio House feature prominent decorators, applied scientists.

Museum of Decorative Arts is part of a national organization of Les Arts Decoratifs («Fine Art"), established in 1882, after the Paris World's Fair, created to preserve the works in this field.

In the museum you can see all the details and see things from different eras: the tie clip, dollhouses, the first Mural. And next, for example - to recreate the interior of a bedroom courtesan Lucy Emily Delabin whose luxury bed described Emile Zola's novel "Nana."