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A glimmer of light slicing through the Louvre’s grey clouds, a landmark exhibition has opened at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in the grounds of Paris’s world-famous museum, titled 1925–2025: A Century of Art Deco. It harks back to 1925’s seminal Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes
Open now at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the principle exhibit at 1925–2025: A Century of Art Deco is The Orient Express Train. And while this, one of the most significant Art Deco showings ever staged, is indeed a retrospective brimming with glimmering tidbits of history, it also has its eyes firmly trained on the future of the world’s most storied train brand. And Orient Express has a new story to tell…
Revealed in Paris and meticulously designed by architect Maxime d’Angeac, the new Orient Express train – set to take to the tracks in 2027 – has in fact been crafted using original 1920s and 1930s carriages. Originally thought to be lost, over the course of a decade Orient Express’ in-house historian Arthur Mettetal utilised Google Maps and 3D satellite imagery to track down 17 original cars formerly known as the ‘Nostalgie-Istanbul-Orient-Express’ abandoned on the Poland–Belarus border.