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/// DESIGN TROTTER / Paris  —  France                                                    Paris  —  France / DESIGN TROTTER ///
           Garden


             of
                  CURIOSITIES




                   MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY
                   PARIS (FRANCE)
                   ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL




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




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                                                                                 DELABIE product installed:
                                                                   TEMPOSOFT MIX 2 time flow mixer (Ref. 742500)
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