La Maison Pierre Frey celebrates the bicentenary of the tissus Braquenié, in the Château de Louye 🎀

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The bucolic and romantic @Château_De_Louye is located between the #Avre and #Eure valleys, on the border where the Kings of England had created a line of defense for their #Duchy of #Normandy.

This #castle has the particularity of having preserved the traces of its different periods of construction. The very old porch of the castle, main entrance until the 18th century, takes us to a #courtyard which reconstructs the life of a village in the #MiddleAges, we then walk along the #Renaissance facade of the castle, built in red bricks decorated with brick designs. black and blue, with a carved flint base. Two square towers stand out from this facade, one of which has a very beautiful wooden door decorated with a cord called "cordelière des widows" attributed to #AnneOfBrittany.

At the dawn of its bicentenary, the legendary #MaisonBraquenié bears witness to the timelessness of its heritage and celebrates the quintessence of French style, a subtle blend of foreign influences and national creations. That's why, the Maison decided to offer a rich dialogue between tradition embodied in unalterable elegance and assumed reinterpretations, the #ANNIVERSAIRE18232023 collection unfolds both around authentic reproductions and reinterpretations inspired by illustrious documents, kept in the archives department of the House, or in the heritage funds of the @ChateauVersailles, the @MADParis or the @MuseeDeLaToileDeJouy.

This is in this #ChateauDeLouye that the legendary #Braquenie #homefabrics house decided to celebrate its #bicentenary. Nowadays, property of @LaMaisonPierreFrey #hometextile group, #Braquenié is notably famous for its #printedcottons, #silks and #handwoven #rugs, revealing a rich and fascinating style where opulence, luxuriance and #orientalism, particularly tainted by the #SecondEmpire style, rhyme with countless undulations, #Japonism and vegetal curves of #ArtNouveau, completed with some geometric influence, straight from the #decorativearts current.
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