Collection Tropiques
A collection linked to travel and impregnated of history of botany
Through this collection, our workshops reconnect with the tradition of the 18th century's botanical drawing together a way to know better nature and precious collectibles as well as a proper visual art. Pierre-Joseph Redouté painter at the court of Versailles then for Josephine de Beauharnais is an essential artist for botanists, nicknamed “the Raphael of flowers"; he is particularly renowned for his watercolors of roses.
Botanist painting is also nourished by major expeditions like the one of James Cook which allowes to discover other countries and an exotic and new nature from which artists make survey drawings.
The Tropiques collection proposes plant motifs, jungles, tropical forests, banana trees, cut foliage and perfumed flowers of heavenly destinations. The handmade patterns, drawn with pencil and painted with gouache in our workshops, highlight a desire for exoticism which is still alive today.
