The Forney Library is a favorite place for students and artists, who come to be inspired bythethousands of works preserved in the fields of decorative arts, crafts and their techniques, fine arts and graphic arts, without forgetting fashion, advertising, design.
This specialized library washousedin the 1960s in the Hôtel de Sens, a 2,500 square meter, 500 year old building, a magnificent vestige of medieval civil architecture in Paris. With a new scenography, new furniture, new user-friendly reception areas and new lighting in the reading rooms, the library has beentransformedto better welcome its public.
On the first floor, no more noisy reading areas, but a relaxing area with benches and coffee machines, ideal before taking the stairs to go to the library itself. In order to respect the readers' quietness, the loan and registrationdeskis located at the entrance of the first room, filled with books on loan from home. So, far from the hustle and bustle, the beautiful gothic-inspired main hall has become a truly quiet study area, with all the technology necessary for today's world, which used to be a place of passage.
It must be said that many students and professionals flock tostudythe library's beautiful collection, a collection initiated by Aimé Samuel Forney, an industrialist particularly interested in professional training and arts and crafts, who proposed in his will to the city of Paris to create a "people's library.
Today, the collections of the Forney Library are :
This library is accessible to all, it would be a shame not to take advantage of a visit to enter this place of history that is the Hotel de Sens!
