High Life

品 54 #10 2017 年 7 月 “I have many favorites, it is difficult to choose,” she says. “In every exhibition I try to showcase the connections between French culture and China. We have several pieces that highlight this influence. Right at the start of the journey there is this book which I love, the first one comparing Latin to Chinese. It is leather with gold trimming. It means a lot to me because I’m both a linguist and Latinist. This book took 40 years to complete – there were 60,000 wooden Chinese ideograms sculpted in the French National printing house.” Art, fashion, religion, jewellery and culture. Exquisite exemplars of all these metiers come together in a single room with one thing in common – the 79th element on the periodic table.