collection: from Napoleon to Grace Kelly
From 8 September to 15 November an exhibition will be open rather special that will bring together more than 400 pieces of wigs and hairpieces Meseu of the Diocese of Barcelona and the exhibition will include several hair belonged to the Emperor Napoleon and the doctor cut O'Meara, his surgeon and will be the island of Elba pride of 'exposure' Coiffure Art, The Art of Hair '.
The exhibition has on display the private collection of hairdressers in Barcelona Raffel Pages. Designed as a chronological journey in the history of hairdressing hair of the various characters on the show will stop all the techniques, hair styles, cuts and trends in colors, as well as all Specific additions to adorn their heads.
Napoleon's hair are not the only famous pieces, you can also see top-knot of Grace Kelly in 1970, created by Alexandre with her hair, the hairdresser of the royal family of Monaco and a mecha Salvador Dalí who got to Llongueras in exchange for some photos. Pages, a Europa Press, confessed: "I am a compulsive collector," and stressed that beyond the pieces mythomaniac there are historical objects, like a precious golden crown of the fourth century BC, and so paintings and books of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, unique, and that belonged to the Church, recalled that as a hairdresser, was the institution responsible, over the centuries, to trends with the various hairstyles that have followed over the centuries.
The Pages collection is considered the world's largest hair salon on: between objects and books, there are over 10,000 pieces and a portion is exposed on a continual basis in a large room that the hairdresser has in disposizine Rambla Catalunya in Barcelona . In return, his intention is to build a great museum, possibly in Paris or Madrid, where he can count on the community's president, Esperanza Aguirre.
It all began in 1960, when Pages, returning from Paris has seen how his father renewed the shop by parrucchierre who had the high zone of Barcelona. Since then he has started to collect equipment for hairdressers and has acquired a helmet for learning and for 50 years now, every week bought a new object.
Maria Luisa L. Fortuna
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