Visit of the Eaux Courantes residency at the Manufacture des Gobelins, March 2022 © Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche.
Visit of the Eaux Courantes residency at the Manufacture des Gobelins, March 2022 © Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche.
Guided tour of the Manufacture des Gobelins, followed by a walk in the 13th arrondissement.
With : Mathilde Belouali, Marie Bette, Yoann Dumel-Vaillot.
It was on the banks of the Bièvre, whose waters were reputed for their dyeing qualities, that a scarlet dyeing industry was set up at the end of the Middle Ages, which gradually became the royal tapestry workshops and the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was on the site of the former gardens of the Manufacture, and above the “ravine of the Bièvre”, which had already been covered/already covered, that Auguste Perret erected the building of the Mobilier national
