La salle du trône des Tuileries

The residence of French heads of state until 1870, the Tuileries Palace featured a sumptuous Throne Room at its center, which Louis XVIII, succeeding Napoleon, had completely renovated based on designs by Jean-Démosthène Dugourc. At the fall of the Second Empire, the decorative elements of this room were stored in the reserves of the Mobilier national. Identified and restored one by one, they allowed for the reconstruction of this room at the Louvre Museum in 2024.

Through the sparkling bronzes, gilded woods, and sumptuous silks of this royal decor, the present work invites us to discover the decorative inventiveness during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, as well as a series of masterpieces by great Parisian artisans – Thomire, Jacob-Desmalter, Picot… – from the Lyon silk industry and the factories of Savonnerie, Beauvais, or Gobelins.

Unfold the flaps of the cover, to visualize the Throne Room in its entirety “as if one were there”.