![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/ZJHXH7QBWXOPLUCOGBA4O5O524.jpg?smart=true&auth=e50181c8061c95853c7afca427f4d9c56fdd53fe204abdf43e9018d5232e22dd&width=400&height=225)
Boscoreale Treasure, found at Boscoreale (Italy), 1st century BC-1st century CE, silver and gold. Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, gift of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, 1895. Photo credit: RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Stéphane Maréchalle
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/RWHSEH4FCN74MZBQKRYZ2ZFI64.jpg?smart=true&auth=3db9422538da17fcb1843d03f680ebb5e7038d7730019e21fc3b6e5e5271b4d8&width=400&height=225)
Visitors explore '10,000 Years of Luxury' at Louvre Abu Dhabi. Courtesy of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo by Ismail Noor
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/BLCTTCMX3G6EM2L4GZDPSJ4VZY.jpg?smart=true&auth=92aa7ef5f45d134e4c4fe18a1126d03f1e7a4cf80d24f35c0576f275293fc030&width=400&height=225)
A visitor to '10,000 Years of Luxury' looks at an antique necklace featuring Gulf pearls. Courtesy of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo by Ismail Noor
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/TQ24KVIJTZJHODZGKQ3VITC66E.jpg?smart=true&auth=c4a0f3ad54a55df2a0881ea0b805b5d4caf0cf4fdf5c9fe2e5f03b9f4dc1c0aa&width=400&height=225)
The Abu Dhabi pearl, 5800-5600 BC, Marawah Island, United Arab Emirates. Courtesy of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/WW73C4MIPS5WZBVERMVCTWQEH4.jpg?smart=true&auth=2c8d73c22672e9c0416dc9353dccb23ebc0f321f52ff4aa56d5645cc2a8cfa43&width=400&height=225)
Shell spoon, Germany (?), 16th century, handle of chased and engraved cast silver, bowl of shell. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Jean Tholance
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/55SUNF5J5NUBJDJUCSBHOOSCCU.jpg?smart=true&auth=4195999cf35fca9bdfeb7c613f4fc25332c8226a475aca0b7bfb09a33a8404ff&width=400&height=225)
'Cosmetic spoon', Egypt, late 18th or 19th dynasty (1300-1186 BC), carob wood (spoon) and tamarisk wood (lid) inlaid and painted Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Decamps
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/PJVGIMIEMG4RPNTETICOQS5K2E.jpg?smart=true&auth=32a76133abe0690ffe4413ae37c8903c39a0bae51905f3b073742e5f7271950e&width=400&height=225)
Adélaïde ball gown and coat, Christian Dior, Spring/Summer 1948. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs UFAC collection, gift of Elinor
Brodie, 1969. Photo credit: MAD, Paris, Jean Tholance
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/FV6JQ2H6WMPB36FQR4JKCSPH3M.jpg?smart=true&auth=a0637c263368e1c9db26842d8565f088e341385d6f1176aedbdcfe28d9c488e8&width=400&height=225)
Evening gown, Quatre mouchoirs, Madeleine Vionnet, Winter 1920. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, UFAC collection, gift of Madeleine Vionnet, 1952. Photo credit: MAD, Paris/Patrick Gries
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/A67MSIRDAYQ664NWMOZJTZRQKQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=024c024aaf2690bd11d82460e9645ca0b5c702f4c5c703ee097227652f1e1902&width=400&height=225)
Inlaid bracelet, found at the necropolis of Yahmur (Syria), 3rd century, gold, garnet, green fluorite, sapphire, amethyst, chalcedony and glass (?). Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, formerly De Clercq- Boisgelin collections, Bj 2229. Photo credit: RMN, Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/Stéphane Maréchalle
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/VPBPKGYLGD4DDZHBWPAB2P2ZZQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=a667e3df2c83b3d9d15e67055cc04ec05bbcdd129badb8209fe4df21c3927ea1&width=400&height=225)
Antique necklace made from natural Gulf pearls with multi coloured enamel and white stones c. 1880, India. Courtesy: Zayed National Museum
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/EWPHB6YMFHPZQZEW6MEIJQS62M.jpg?smart=true&auth=b8ed9eb1a40c80eb467798da8f45ef9d3e2dd486ed6c71121ab5dd0fa6d13027&width=400&height=225)
Samovar, Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna workshop), Austria, Vienna 1904-1905. Courtesy: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: APF
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/YHX4M7LFFP7UFYDNYZEU7RS5YE.jpg?smart=true&auth=8fe3d6921bdcc00b1c31eed5b6a959f0f94dd377338b92762dd4e0fb7ac177a8&width=400&height=225)
Smallhythe table with folding leaves, Edward William Godwin, London, 1872. Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: APF
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/RYXILHNPDFLXEGVCT33TOL3DNQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=ae68c5dd1d1539997fa8092a0b5d637cf863fb06321b6ffc753472b382d88c75&width=400&height=225)
Fragment of velvet, Italy, second half of the 15th century, silk, metallic thread: red figured velvet and alluciolato with three heights of pile on taffeta backing, weft-loop weave. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Photo credit: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi/Hervé Lewandowski
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/OQ46PDVFS77LKSPUTFXPRS2PHQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=8fe0e807e0cf92d85ecca2c58e21eb5581bb157df588e82cb78ef70a6331b271&width=400&height=225)
The Hourglass (Le Sablier), Marc Newson, HG Timepiece – Switzerland Suisse, 2015. Courtesy: Philippe Joner, 2015
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/QFU5BNFHQI2V4GBNSSHEZQFUEQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=5795cd3ac01a9eeb26c5fb32903660b47894eccb535a15bfe8bf1697096025c5&width=400&height=225)
Noisettes Necklace, René Lalique, Paris, c. 1900, gold, diamonds, peridots, enamel, glass. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Photo: MAD, Paris – Christophe Dellière
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/HSIRCTCCERKZW2Q63TKB62XYJY.jpg?smart=true&auth=f2941b8fa34db16b10d579f2b0c1e974ffd7efc0b57ee7c3483378432593f115&width=400&height=225)
Soup Tureen, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris, c. 1819, brass, silvered by Christofle, 1907–1908. Courtesy: Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, gift of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot to the French Chamber of Peers, 1835; assigned to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 2016. Photo credit: MAD, Paris, Jean Tholance
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/LOF762SSYKQ4JQQHJYYKTQ2W6Q.jpg?smart=true&auth=fa760424b489b10f5678ed879a9f0e38d1413578f3d159e36708d48f82ad1df5&width=400&height=225)
Cameo with mythological subject: Bacchus and Ariadne, Rome Julio-Claudian period (41-45, Tablet); imperial period (1st-4th centuries, other glyptic pieces) and 1780 (reconstructed by Luigi Valadier), onyx marble, semi-precious stones, marble, gold, gilt bronze, enamel, glass paste. Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Rome, probably Catacombs of Priscilla on the via Salaria (tablet and glyptic pieces); Rome, collection of Gaspare Carpegna; Vatican, Profane Museum; Paris, Palais des Tuileries (King’s apartments), 1740-1778. Photo credit: RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Les frères Chuzeville
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/YEJGJENGBKITSFHABZJNPYEOMU.jpg?smart=true&auth=4f90a4de539b68746d80834903261e78c3f63ed1402c04b670f820e697aa3bcd&width=400&height=225)
Dress ELIE SAAB, France, Spring/Summer 2019 collection, off shoulder dress in organza printed with vegetal motifs, embroidered shiny and matt parma sequins. Photo credit: ELIE SAAB
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/4D66QQVAP5IAHYCPYNJXGWWY4I.jpg?smart=true&auth=64ffcdcbbb083b5c27bdc405aa8753a70e9c9646cf3dded88b02f931a44c120f&width=400&height=225)
Dress in two parts, circa 1867, sapphire silk velvet embroidered in gold thread with bercelé rinceaux and grape-bunch motifs, with goldlace trim. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, gift of E. Hayaux du Tilly, 1935
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/3B7UGHRUK6ZX7NP5O5Y3NXWTFM.jpg?smart=true&auth=db08c8ff59001490919c25552cb0256fd43ae67db91e284873457a1cc77195d3&width=400&height=225)
Three Medallion Mamluk Carpet, Egypt, Cairo, 1450-1500, wool. Courtesy: Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi/Hervé Lewandowski
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/ZJHXH7QBWXOPLUCOGBA4O5O524.jpg?smart=true&auth=e50181c8061c95853c7afca427f4d9c56fdd53fe204abdf43e9018d5232e22dd&width=400&height=225)
Boscoreale Treasure, found at Boscoreale (Italy), 1st century BC-1st century CE, silver and gold. Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, gift of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, 1895. Photo credit: RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Stéphane Maréchalle
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/RWHSEH4FCN74MZBQKRYZ2ZFI64.jpg?smart=true&auth=3db9422538da17fcb1843d03f680ebb5e7038d7730019e21fc3b6e5e5271b4d8&width=400&height=225)
Visitors explore '10,000 Years of Luxury' at Louvre Abu Dhabi. Courtesy of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo by Ismail Noor
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/BLCTTCMX3G6EM2L4GZDPSJ4VZY.jpg?smart=true&auth=92aa7ef5f45d134e4c4fe18a1126d03f1e7a4cf80d24f35c0576f275293fc030&width=400&height=225)
A visitor to '10,000 Years of Luxury' looks at an antique necklace featuring Gulf pearls. Courtesy of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo by Ismail Noor
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/TQ24KVIJTZJHODZGKQ3VITC66E.jpg?smart=true&auth=c4a0f3ad54a55df2a0881ea0b805b5d4caf0cf4fdf5c9fe2e5f03b9f4dc1c0aa&width=400&height=225)
The Abu Dhabi pearl, 5800-5600 BC, Marawah Island, United Arab Emirates. Courtesy of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/WW73C4MIPS5WZBVERMVCTWQEH4.jpg?smart=true&auth=2c8d73c22672e9c0416dc9353dccb23ebc0f321f52ff4aa56d5645cc2a8cfa43&width=400&height=225)
Shell spoon, Germany (?), 16th century, handle of chased and engraved cast silver, bowl of shell. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Jean Tholance
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/55SUNF5J5NUBJDJUCSBHOOSCCU.jpg?smart=true&auth=4195999cf35fca9bdfeb7c613f4fc25332c8226a475aca0b7bfb09a33a8404ff&width=400&height=225)
'Cosmetic spoon', Egypt, late 18th or 19th dynasty (1300-1186 BC), carob wood (spoon) and tamarisk wood (lid) inlaid and painted Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Decamps
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/PJVGIMIEMG4RPNTETICOQS5K2E.jpg?smart=true&auth=32a76133abe0690ffe4413ae37c8903c39a0bae51905f3b073742e5f7271950e&width=400&height=225)
Adélaïde ball gown and coat, Christian Dior, Spring/Summer 1948. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs UFAC collection, gift of Elinor
Brodie, 1969. Photo credit: MAD, Paris, Jean Tholance
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/FV6JQ2H6WMPB36FQR4JKCSPH3M.jpg?smart=true&auth=a0637c263368e1c9db26842d8565f088e341385d6f1176aedbdcfe28d9c488e8&width=400&height=225)
Evening gown, Quatre mouchoirs, Madeleine Vionnet, Winter 1920. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, UFAC collection, gift of Madeleine Vionnet, 1952. Photo credit: MAD, Paris/Patrick Gries
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/A67MSIRDAYQ664NWMOZJTZRQKQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=024c024aaf2690bd11d82460e9645ca0b5c702f4c5c703ee097227652f1e1902&width=400&height=225)
Inlaid bracelet, found at the necropolis of Yahmur (Syria), 3rd century, gold, garnet, green fluorite, sapphire, amethyst, chalcedony and glass (?). Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, formerly De Clercq- Boisgelin collections, Bj 2229. Photo credit: RMN, Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/Stéphane Maréchalle
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/VPBPKGYLGD4DDZHBWPAB2P2ZZQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=a667e3df2c83b3d9d15e67055cc04ec05bbcdd129badb8209fe4df21c3927ea1&width=400&height=225)
Antique necklace made from natural Gulf pearls with multi coloured enamel and white stones c. 1880, India. Courtesy: Zayed National Museum
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/EWPHB6YMFHPZQZEW6MEIJQS62M.jpg?smart=true&auth=b8ed9eb1a40c80eb467798da8f45ef9d3e2dd486ed6c71121ab5dd0fa6d13027&width=400&height=225)
Samovar, Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna workshop), Austria, Vienna 1904-1905. Courtesy: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: APF
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/YHX4M7LFFP7UFYDNYZEU7RS5YE.jpg?smart=true&auth=8fe3d6921bdcc00b1c31eed5b6a959f0f94dd377338b92762dd4e0fb7ac177a8&width=400&height=225)
Smallhythe table with folding leaves, Edward William Godwin, London, 1872. Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: APF
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/RYXILHNPDFLXEGVCT33TOL3DNQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=ae68c5dd1d1539997fa8092a0b5d637cf863fb06321b6ffc753472b382d88c75&width=400&height=225)
Fragment of velvet, Italy, second half of the 15th century, silk, metallic thread: red figured velvet and alluciolato with three heights of pile on taffeta backing, weft-loop weave. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Photo credit: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi/Hervé Lewandowski
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/OQ46PDVFS77LKSPUTFXPRS2PHQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=8fe0e807e0cf92d85ecca2c58e21eb5581bb157df588e82cb78ef70a6331b271&width=400&height=225)
The Hourglass (Le Sablier), Marc Newson, HG Timepiece – Switzerland Suisse, 2015. Courtesy: Philippe Joner, 2015
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/QFU5BNFHQI2V4GBNSSHEZQFUEQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=5795cd3ac01a9eeb26c5fb32903660b47894eccb535a15bfe8bf1697096025c5&width=400&height=225)
Noisettes Necklace, René Lalique, Paris, c. 1900, gold, diamonds, peridots, enamel, glass. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Photo: MAD, Paris – Christophe Dellière
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/HSIRCTCCERKZW2Q63TKB62XYJY.jpg?smart=true&auth=f2941b8fa34db16b10d579f2b0c1e974ffd7efc0b57ee7c3483378432593f115&width=400&height=225)
Soup Tureen, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris, c. 1819, brass, silvered by Christofle, 1907–1908. Courtesy: Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, gift of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot to the French Chamber of Peers, 1835; assigned to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 2016. Photo credit: MAD, Paris, Jean Tholance
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/LOF762SSYKQ4JQQHJYYKTQ2W6Q.jpg?smart=true&auth=fa760424b489b10f5678ed879a9f0e38d1413578f3d159e36708d48f82ad1df5&width=400&height=225)
Cameo with mythological subject: Bacchus and Ariadne, Rome Julio-Claudian period (41-45, Tablet); imperial period (1st-4th centuries, other glyptic pieces) and 1780 (reconstructed by Luigi Valadier), onyx marble, semi-precious stones, marble, gold, gilt bronze, enamel, glass paste. Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Rome, probably Catacombs of Priscilla on the via Salaria (tablet and glyptic pieces); Rome, collection of Gaspare Carpegna; Vatican, Profane Museum; Paris, Palais des Tuileries (King’s apartments), 1740-1778. Photo credit: RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Les frères Chuzeville
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/YEJGJENGBKITSFHABZJNPYEOMU.jpg?smart=true&auth=4f90a4de539b68746d80834903261e78c3f63ed1402c04b670f820e697aa3bcd&width=400&height=225)
Dress ELIE SAAB, France, Spring/Summer 2019 collection, off shoulder dress in organza printed with vegetal motifs, embroidered shiny and matt parma sequins. Photo credit: ELIE SAAB
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/4D66QQVAP5IAHYCPYNJXGWWY4I.jpg?smart=true&auth=64ffcdcbbb083b5c27bdc405aa8753a70e9c9646cf3dded88b02f931a44c120f&width=400&height=225)
Dress in two parts, circa 1867, sapphire silk velvet embroidered in gold thread with bercelé rinceaux and grape-bunch motifs, with goldlace trim. Courtesy: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, gift of E. Hayaux du Tilly, 1935
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/3B7UGHRUK6ZX7NP5O5Y3NXWTFM.jpg?smart=true&auth=db08c8ff59001490919c25552cb0256fd43ae67db91e284873457a1cc77195d3&width=400&height=225)
Three Medallion Mamluk Carpet, Egypt, Cairo, 1450-1500, wool. Courtesy: Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi/Hervé Lewandowski
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/ZJHXH7QBWXOPLUCOGBA4O5O524.jpg?smart=true&auth=e50181c8061c95853c7afca427f4d9c56fdd53fe204abdf43e9018d5232e22dd&width=400&height=225)
Boscoreale Treasure, found at Boscoreale (Italy), 1st century BC-1st century CE, silver and gold. Courtesy: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, gift of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, 1895. Photo credit: RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Stéphane Maréchalle
Exploring 10,000 Years of Luxury at Louvre Abu Dhabi: unashamedly opulent yet wonderfully exhilarating
A new exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi aims to trace the story of luxury through 350 objects
![Rupert Hawksley](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Farc-authors%2Fthenational%2F95bc11f5-8afc-4853-952f-769529b7066f.png?smart=true&auth=b9c2e3d3a44d85f8a8f6e88cd3dcd0b9d8aaaf82d968aa600c8fc58b8335b29a&width=70&height=70)
Rupert Hawksley
29 October, 2019
- Listen In English
- Listen In Arabic