Maxime Old at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and "Le laboratoire" innovation signed by an ENSA Normandie student team

To coincide with the major retrospective devoted to the architect, cabinetmaker and decorator Maxime Old, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is inaugurating a new space, "Le Laboratoire Maxime Old", designed in collaboration with 3rd-year students from the École nationale supérieure d'Architecture de Rouen as part of the "Situation" workshop. Supervised by three teachers from different disciplines: Sophie Cambrillat (architect), Dominique Lefrançois (sociologist) and Kacha Legrand (visual artist), this student team reinvented Maxime Old's furniture for the 21st century, rethinking forms, materials and uses in a contemporary context.

Visual ©Sophie Cambrillat