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Behind the scenes of a titanic construction site

2022-09-29T05:24:46.708Z


This is where the Cartier legend was born, at 13 rue de la Paix in Paris, and where it has been built since 1899. Private tour of an extraordinary construction site before its expected reopening at the end of October.


The titanic project was completed almost one hundred and twenty-three years to the day after Cartier arrived at this now legendary address, rue de la Paix.

We can already observe - since the protective covers of the facade were removed - that the storefront has kept its black marble veined with golden yellow pyrite.

An unexpected setting for the time, which has since become an identity.

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After two years of work, the Panthère de Cartier will find a brand new decor at the beginning of November.

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On the inside?

Mystery.

Nothing will be revealed before November 4.

We are probably not getting too far in imagining that certain sets will draw the thread of the heritage and maintain the spirit of the place.

Pillars of the great history of the house, they are also the witnesses of a thousand anecdotes that they would tell us with delight.

They would make us smile, depicting the embarrassment of the sellers, that day in 1906 when the young Aga Khan had to wait while Louis Cartier took care of John Pierpont Morgan, then the richest man in the world.

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The mythical building at 13 rue de la Paix, in Paris, has been completely dismantled for the needs of this titanic construction site.

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