Sedan, memory of a city, at Carpet Point.

Name: Sedan, recuerdo de una ciudad, en el Tapis Point.
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Point de Sedan

The association Urbi&Orbi offers you large format prints of a selection of its negatives and glass plates (Roger Vincent fonds, Médiathèque Georges-Delaw).

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Service du Patrimoine / Ville de Sedan

Roger Vincent, a photographer based at Place de la Halle in Sedan, was a local correspondent for L'Union and also worked for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. His photographs tell the story of a French city undergoing reconstruction, deciphering the evolution of the urban landscape and the way of life of its citizens between 1950 and 1975. The Urbi&Orbi association offers you large format prints of a selection of its negatives and glass plates (Roger Vincent fonds, Médiathèque Georges-Delaw), to which respond the recent works of four invited photographers, all in an amazing setting, From the Sedan Point Carpet Factory. Although it closed in 2007, looms and other machinery are still in place.

About the location

Le Point de Sedan

13 Boulevard Gambetta, 08200 Sedan

Ardennes
Grand Est

The carpet manufacture Duquesne et Cie was born in 1878 from the desire of the industrialist Adrien Duquesne to develop mechanically and patented the manufacturing process of traditional oriental carpets.
Associated with Sedan engineer Henri Grosselin, after the success of the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889 where he received a silver medal, it sets up a complex mechanical technique that would allow a double fixing of the wool point in the shape of 8 on a warp and a weft, forming a linen canvas. Production was mechanized around 1892-93\.
The Carpets Parisiens of the Société Duquesne, with oriental models manufactured industrially, were a great success until the First World War and won many awards. War and occupation damage buildings, production is stopped. In 1919 she took over Le Point de Sedan under the direction of Adrien Duquesne’s grandson, Maurice Grosselin. Then the factory was taken over in 1943 by Paul and Louis Henrion; of the equipment, only 12 out of 32 trades had esc