How to combine old and new, the current and the last century? The graceful version is offered by the designer Constance Guissé (Constance Guisset). She created the exhibition-performance Les Formes Savantes (“Academic Forms”) in the historic interiors of the Cabrières-Sabatier d’Espeyran mansion of the Fabre Museum in Montpellier.

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In ten rooms, there are ten scenes of the play, invented specifically for the exhibition by Frédéric Dassas, Museum of the Louvre, by writer and art historian Adrien Goetz and Cloe Pitiot, Center Pompidou. The replicas were recorded by professional actors, so a walk through the exposition was accompanied by flirtatious conversations between historical objects — the “natives” of these rooms — and the seemingly “alien” works of Constance Guissé.

Fascinating, lively conversations of things-heroes about themselves, the history of design, various techniques and peculiarities of using these or those items make it possible, according to the curators of the exposition Michel Hilaire and Florence Hudowicz, to show the basics and sources of modern industrial design.

You can watch and listen to the exhibition until September 17, 2017.