Manufactures nationales, Sèvres & Mobilier national
This unique and new public centre dedicated to the decorative arts, arts and crafts and design combines heritage and creativity to play a central role in implementing the national strategy to promote arts and crafts.
Its work focuses on 6 priority areas: training; innovating; creation; supporting the fragile arts and crafts ecosystem; enhancing heritage ; and international promotion of expertise.
The legacy of four centuries of history, it is composed of : 2 museums (National Ceramic Museum in Sèvres; Adrien Dubouché National Museum in Limoges), 9 manufactures and design workshops (including National Manufacture of Sèvres ; National Manufacture of Gobelins; National Manufacture of Beauvais ; National Manufacture of Savonnerie; Alençon and Puy-en-Velay Lace Workshop; Research and Creation Workshop), 7 restoration workshops and a furniture mission.
With a strong regional focus, this public-sector centre has offices in 8 départements: Paris, Hauts-de-Seine (Sèvres), Hérault (Lodève), Creuse (Aubusson), Orne (Alençon), Haute-Loire (Puy-en-Velay), Haute-Vienne (Limoges) and Oise (Beauvais).
The National Ceramics Manufactory and Museum of Sèvres became an associate member of Comité Colbert in 1985.
The Mobilier National became an associate member of Comité Colbert in 2011.
Its signature
From high and low warp tapestry to Sèvres blue defined around 1778; from furniture restoration using traditional techniques to Limoges porcelain; the Manufactures nationales are rich in exceptional expertise, the fruit of hundreds of hours of work and four centuries of French craftsmanship.
The address
The Manufactures nationales are located on several sites. The Mobilier National is housed in the historic 17th-century Enclos des Gobelins at 42 avenue des Gobelins, and in a building specially constructed for the institution in 1936 by Auguste Perret at 1 rue Berbier du Mets.
Between Paris and Versailles, The Sèvres Manufactory and Museum are gathered in twenty-four buildings dating to the late 19th century, at 2 place de la Manufacture in Sèvres.
Listed historical monument in 1992, the Adrien Dubouché Museum, housed at 8bis Place Winston Churchill in Limoges, has an Italian-style frontage decorated with architectural ceramics.
