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The nave and side galleries of the Museum host 470 works, paintings and photographs, but also many objects that bear witness to this evolution, passing through the bedroom seen by Henri Cartier Bresson or Nan Golden, from wrought iron beds, the commode or the maternal belly chair to sex toys and surveillance and protection tools.
To emphasize the notion of voyeurism in the face of privacy, the exhibition opens with a huge keyhole.
The word «bedroom» actually only appeared in the 18th century with the emer- gence of a bourgeois class. A new concept of hygiene is born, an important place is given to amenities, the bathtub, dressing tables and boudoirs.
In these places, perfume reigns as the perfect essence of intimacy. Close to the body or in a trail, fresh or voluptuous, it signifies the desires for cleanliness or seduction.
Thus are exhibited certain olfactory icons. Symbol of the woman freed from her corset in the 20s, Tabac Blond accompanies the very oriental and carnal Opium by Yves Saint Laurent while the young girl in bloom dreams of her future in Anaïs Anaïs.
The great nave is part of a spectacular scenography with twenty-five master- pieces of 20th century design around the theme of the nest and shared intimacy, such as the Womb Chair by Eero Saarinen or La Mamma by Gaetano Pesce.
MAD Museum of Decorative Arts
- Grand Nef - exhibition “L’Intime” Joe Colombo Cabriolet Bad 1969 © Alessandra Cenna