Traces de France
Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
Étiquette : English
illustration : Palais de Noordeinde à la Haye, Pays-Bas, avec la devise « Je maintiendrai » en français
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Boston’s French Secrets: Guided Walks That Reveal Boston’s French Heritage (Rhea Hollis Atwood, 2004)
Ce guide touristique consacré au patrimoine caché vous propose une exploration étape par étape des quartiers connus pour leurs habitants français, leur architecture française et leur influence française.
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SEFTON PARK | Historic England (NHLE)
Designed by Edouard André who was the first to introduce French park design to England
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Rococo | Encyclopeadia Britannica
De la France, le style rococo s’est répandu dans les années 1730 vers les terres catholiques germanophones
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Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts (Cody, Coll. 2011)
Savoir comment les architectes chinois ont été influencés par les Beaux-Arts et comment l’architecture chinoise a été modifiée en conséquence.
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The Anglo-Norman MAGNA CARTA (Rouen Bibliothèque municipale)
Anglo-Norman was the actual language of performance of Magna Carta
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Village People
Jacques Morali, l’homme qui a tout imaginé
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Hotel Maria Cristina (San Sebastian, Espagne)
Immediately becoming the favored accommodation for international high society
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Monsieur Baret First Woman Around the World , Dunmore, John (2002)
First woman to circumnavigate the world
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Hotel Ritz (London) | wikipedia
L’extérieur, d’inspiration française classique, a été conçu par Charles Mewès (architecte du Ritz de Paris) et Arthur Joseph Davis
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s 200th birthday: Architect celebrated in Google doodle | The Independant
Viollet-le-Duc dominates 19th-century theories of architectural restoration.
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Hotel Normandie (Puerto Rico)
This building is an excellent example of the Art Deco style on the island.
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Newport Transporter Bridge—an historical perspective (Ferdinand Arnodin)
Exactly 100 years ago French suspension bridge expert Ferdinand Arnodin was commissioned to design the Newport Transporter Bridge in south Wales
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Régine, Whose Discotheque Gave Nightlife a New Dawn, Dies at 92
And so began Chez Régine, widely regarded as the world’s first discotheque
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Improving traffic behaviour and safety through urban design (Eugene Henard)
He is credited with the invention of the traffic roundabout in 1877
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Alcide d’Orbigny and American micropaleontology
Les Américains reconnaissent maintenant d’Orbigny comme « le père de la micropaléontologie »
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Top 10 most prestigious races in the world
This is, in my honest opinion, the most prestigious race in the world.
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François Hennebique | The National Inventors Hall of Fame
He patented his revolutionary reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892.
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Pierre-Émile Martin French engineer | Encyclopeadia Britannica
Ingénieur français qui a inventé le procédé Siemens-Martin, qui a produit la majeure partie de l’acier du monde jusqu’à l’arrivée des procédés à l’oxygène
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan (Aqua-lung)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invented a system that would revolutionize the world of deep-sea exploration
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Louis Marius Moyroud | The National Inventors Hall of Fame
One of two major innovations created in type composition since Gutenberg’s invention of movable type
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The Houdry Process | American Chemical Society
Pioneered by Eugene Jules Houdry (1892-1962), the catalytic cracking of petroleum revolutionized the industry.
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Programming patterns: the story of the Jacquard loom | The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester
Découvrez comment le métier Jacquard a à la fois révolutionné la production de tissus à motifs et inspiré le développement des débuts de l’informatique.
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Benoît Fourneyron French inventor | Encyclopeadia Britannica
Fourneyron’s turbine achieved immediate international success, powering industry in continental Europe and in the United States
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Willard InterContinental Washington
1901 – The Willard is torn down to make way for the new Willard, a Beaux-Arts style structure that currently remains today.
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Cannon House Office Building | aoc.gov
A significant example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture.
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Russell Senate Office Building | aoc.gov
A significant example of the Beaux Arts style.
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Thomas Jefferson Building | aoc.gov
The Jefferson Building is recognized as a premier example of the Beaux Arts style, which is theatrical, heavily ornamented and kinetic.
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Beaux Arts | aoc.gov
It is a style perfectly suited to a young, wealthy and imperialistic nation in its Gilded Age.
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GERTRUDE RHINELANDER WALDO MANSION
The Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion is a handsome and elaborate nee-French Renaissance residence
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Ralph Lauren’s New York Flagship Store
For this venture Lauren decided on the Beaux Arts style, a boldly classical architectural movement of a century ago
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Henry T. Sloane / Oliver Gould Jennings Houses (7-8 East 72nd Street, NY) | wikipedia
Originally constructed in 1898 for Oliver Gould Jennings in the French Beaux-Arts style
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An American Renaissance : Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City (compte rendu AD magazine et extraits)
Ils avaient besoin d’une architecture empreinte de grandeur, pleine de références historiques et richement ornée. Le style Beaux-Arts était né.
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Tazewell County Courthouse (Illinois) | wikipedia
The firm designed the courthouse in the Beaux-Arts style
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Edward H. Everett House | Library of Congress
which influenced Beaux-Arts Neoclassicism.
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Edward Julius Berwind House (The Elms) | sah-archipedia
An enlarged copy of the garden elevation from the Château D’Argenson at Asnières
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William Shepherd Wetmore House (Château-sur-Mer) | sah-archipedia
Hunt substantially transformed the Bradford building, making it more Néo-Grec, the fashionable Second Empire style