BACKPACK AND METRO TICKET
Jean Nouvel offers a real change of scenery at the Musée du Quai Branly. The project, launched by Jacques Chirac, plunges one-day explorers into the heart of the Amazonian forest and asks them to consider art from elsewhere...
And encourages the museum's architecture to tell us the history of the cultures it honors.
GARDEN OF CURIOSITIES
The brief stated it should be a museum dedicated to the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, while simultaneously making a statement, blending into the urban landscape and taking second stage to the exhibits. An architectural conundrum largely solved by the Ateliers Jean Nouvel, with untamed vegetation, outsized windows, and intelligently positioned curves and cubes.
The creation of bridges – real and suggested – between the four buildings and continents provides a setting for an enigmatic stroll through a scenographic landscape mounted on stilts.
DELABIE product installed:
TEMPOSOFT MIX 2 time flow basin mixer - reference 742500
Photo credits : Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Roland Halbe, Clement Guillaume
