CONFERENCE Thursday 26 March 18:30 – 20:00
Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
AN INDEPENDENT READING OF OUR PARIS DAME: LAPIDARY SIGN AND GRAFFITIS
This conference proposes to go back to the scenes of an unprecedented work carried out during the construction of Notre-Dame de Paris. Through the story of a singular collaboration and the exploration of a revised stamping technique, it sheds light on the approach, discoveries and challenges that have revealed an unknown part of the building. An opportunity to explore memory, trace and interpretation differently.
The newspaper Le Compagnonage had the opportunity to meet Santiago Hardy for an interview in issue 843 (1st quarter 2023).
The exhibition is open!
From 18 March to 28 June 2026, The Museum of Decorative Arts presents, on the occasion of the Asian Drawing and Spring Fair, the exhibition « The language of the walls. Stamps from China to Notre-Dame ».
This fourth exhibition-focus within the firm of Drawings, Wallpapers and Photographs puts the practice of stamping through an unprecedented selection of the Chinese and French collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts, from Eugene Grasset to Jean Dubuffet via Émile-Auguste Reiber.
On this occasion, the museum invites Santiago Hardy, a cordist, and Delphine Syvilay, a research engineer at the LRMH (Laboratory of Research of Historical Monuments) to present for the first time the marks of stone tailors and the graffiti stamped at the restoration site of Notre-Dame de Paris. A hundred works and objects thus illustrate this comparison of the technique of ancient and contemporary stamping and its technical, aesthetic and poetic qualities.
Conferences
Throughout the exhibition, find our free conferences around the prints, allowing to trace the history of this practice and its application on the renovation site of Notre-Dame.
— AN INDEPENDENT READING OF OUR PARIS DAME: LAPIDARY SIGN AND GRAFFITIS
Thursday 26 March 18:30 – 20:00
This conference proposes to go back to the scenes of an unprecedented work carried out during the construction of Notre-Dame de Paris. Through the story of a singular collaboration and the exploration of a revised stamping technique, it sheds light on the approach, discoveries and challenges that have revealed an unknown part of the building. An opportunity to explore memory, trace and interpretation differently.
