Arts of the Table through the History
General presentation
The present exposure proposes historically to recall the evolution in the manners of
table by the means of settings in scenes of natural size static characters.
Times approached
- Prehistory
- Antiquity
- the Middle Ages
- the Renaissance
- the XVII th century
- the XIX th century
- the XX th century
component from 15 to 17 tables according to the setting in situation and thus 15 to 17
points of animation.
Each table introduces, for the majority, the characters around prestigious drawn up
tables; others, always associated with Arts of the table, make only suggest the situation.
A panel acompagne each table providing a short history on the manners of tables of the
time.
Tables
The tables can be composed by the decorators of the companies Villeroy & Boch,
Rosenthal, Philippe Deshoulières, Scof... to also carry out compositions in natures died
in various windows. See photo Doc..
Characters
36, of course dressed up, they animate the various scenes:
1 - a man phehistoric with a side of meat to the hand
2 - a lengthened Roman holding a cut
3 - a couple of the Moyen Age surrounded by a maidservant and a menestrel
4 - a couple Renaissance
5 - a couple richly avoided Louis XIV
6 - a couple of revolutionary peasants
7 - a middle-class couple with their young girl and a servant
8 - a couple in a scene of tea time
9 - six characters around a table of marriage
10 - a painter carrying out the " lunch on grass "
11 - an English smoking-room introducing two characters
12 - a couple of the insane years
13 - a coffee boy with his plate
14 - a contemporary young woman with her breakfast
15 - a spationaut in combination suspended in space
16 & 17 - 4 more timeless Venetian characters around other tables
Decorations
Apart from the sets of table linen, the majority of the scenes call upon element of
decoration, furniture and accessories such as luminaries, mirrors etc. When this exposure
is established in a shopping centre, we call upon the various shops for the loan of these
accessories, the scenes concerned mentioning speaker then various.
Modes of exposure
More than very other undoubtedly, this demonstration of prestige offers a great
flexibility of establishment which they are windows or common parts.
This is why any preliminary work consists in carrying out an establishment on level
holding account at the same time parameters of the exposure itself but also of the options
which you wish to develop and, particularly, in term of circulation.
Associated with a play based on " errors " to discover dissimulated in some
scenes, this guaranteed exposure a broad cover of the space of reception by its customers.
Options
- partial exposure
- presentation of a iconography supplements for each time approached as well as very
complete history.
This " illustration " constituting with it only a true exposure, it can be
established in any strategically given place.
- hostess of reception
- organizer for groups and school
- craftsmen of arts of the table working on the spot
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