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Fashion plates
In the 17th century, fashion trends started at the Tuileries Garden. Journalists would come here to comment on the latest creations worn by the ‘high-society ladies’ sitting on wooden benches and walking the ‘Horseshoe’ ramps.
The first publication made for the sole purpose of imparting ‘precise and prompt information regarding new attire and finery’ (often seen at the ‘Thuilleries’), the Cabinet des Modes saw the light of day in 1785. Soon after, the invention of lithography – to which colour was added in 1837 – enabled the development of specialised press.
Do the bloggers taking pictures in the garden and the guests at Dior’s fashion shows atop the octagonal basin know that they are continuing a very old tradition?
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Through the eyes of painters and photographers
Artists have always found the Tuileries Garden appealing.
Urban furniture, or the image of Paris
Paris would not be Paris without its public benches. Part of the urban furniture that helped forge the capital’s identity.
The Tuileries Garden benches, a subject of literature
Guy de MAUPASSANT, Notre Cœur, 1889-1890 (translated as A Woman's Pastime, 1903, St. Dunstan Society)
Seating in public gardens
The Tuileries Garden was one of the first – if not the very first – in the world to make seating available to the public.
