The Museum of Decorative Arts Paris.

Welcome to the 18th century France, the powerhouse of fashion in all of Europe and a sight to behold in all sense of beauty and human achievements. Just as we enter, on our right is a group of 3 young women playing some folk tones on their musical instruments while on our left is a lovely french couple passing their day in the ignorance of the crowd around them. As we walk further, we see a lovely sphinx statue built of clay and sand and polished to such extremity that it shines away at the very camera that is trying to capture it's existence. That is the starting point of our journey because from there onward, we enter into a world of an 18th century french aristocrat whose lavishness in next only to the Greek king Midas. First we go through a living room, fully lighted and well equipped with the potential of scorching any observer with irony and guilt of self absorption. Down the hallway we see certain other rooms- a bedroom, a study-room, a changing room, etc. which are all lit up in the ignorance of the sufferings outside the 4 walls of the palace. Maybe the sufferings of that time were so great that they had to be shelled off through these elaborate building and structures as we see in the museum, or maybe the aristocrats were a bunch of non emphatic pigs whose sole aim in life was self absorption. Needless to say, no matter what their acts were motivated by, they changed the very face of France in the 18th century and helped steer the nation forward.