Nov 6, 2019
“Home of two icons of romantic painting- Fragonard’s Swing and Boucher’s Mme de Pompadour- The Oval Drawing Room makes a perfect venue for a selection of the candy-coloured shoes designed by Blahnik for Sofia Coppola’s award-winning film, “Marie Antionette” (2006). Pompadour’s silk dress, Venus’s pink flesh and the artless slipper flying through the air in Fragonard’s masterpiece evoke passions of the eighteenth- century Paris.”
Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue, “An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahník at the Wallace Collection”
Photography by Cassandra Parsons for The Wallace Collection