Toile de Jouy, a true madeleine de Proust

In the Age of Enlightenment, the return to nature sung by Jean-Jacques Rousseau seems to have found its most perfect expression in cotton fabrics – the "indiennes" – such as those printed by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf in his factory in Jouy-en-Josas founded in 1760. The toile de Jouy was born and entered the heritage of French decorative arts.

These pastoral scenes, these charming characters in bucolic settings could only find the ideal framework to flourish in country houses, and it is quite naturally that I imagined decorating the former rooms of the king's scholarship students with toile de Jouy, under the roof of the 18th-century house of the Prior of the Royal and Military College.

To wallpaper the walls of the College's rooms, I researched at the Museum of Toile de Jouy all the historical designs of Oberkampf and chose the fabrics in all colors: sepia, blue, yellow, carmine, green, brown... By imagining all sorts of products in toile de Jouy, I wanted to share a part of my intimacy, since the house is not open to visitors, thus preserving a private part of the Royal and Military College of Thiron-Gardais.

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