This Beaux-Arts beauty fit in nicely with it's neighbors, and was a cutting edge train station for it's time being the first station designed for electrically powered trains. The building was originally a railway station, Gare d’Orsay, built in 1900 for the Paris World’s Fair under the direction of architect Victor Laloux. It not only contains the largest collection of impressionist and post impressionist masterpieces of the world, but it’s all housed under a spectacular steel and glass vault, a remnant from the building's past life. Yes I said 80! We definitely packed it all in to that trip.Įven though we were somewhere in the double digits for how many art museums we had visited on the trip, Musee d'Orsay immediately became one of our favorites. Paris was our very last destination after about 80 European cities we visited.
Americans really don't use the word holiday so much, but our trip for us was so much more than a vacation so it seems appropriate to adopt this term. Tom and I visited Musee d'Orsay on our "holiday" in Europe. As you can see, this piece has transformed from the earlier designs from an enameled pendant to the lasercut wood and brass pendant shown below. This necklace is one of the very first pieces of jewelry that I started to design in my metal etching and enameling class, and the one that made me think maybe I could do this whole jewelry design thing. The breathtaking interior of Musee d'Orsay in Paris is the inspiration behind the jewelry piece Voûte.
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