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Fresh Pavilion
The Fresh pavilion, Fresh salonIt is also sometimes called the "Pavillon des fraîcheurs" (freshness pavilion) or the "Pavillon de treillage" (Trellis (architecture), trellis pavilion). or ''Pavillon frais'' (in French) is a folly built for Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the French Garden of the Petit Trianon, in the grounds of the Château de Versailles. Built between 1751 and 1753, this new building on this small estate, desired by the King to get away from the constraints of the Court, faces the French pavilion (Versailles), French pavilion and served as a summer dining room where guests could "take fresh air" and enjoy produce from the nearby kitchen garden. This one-room pavilion was designed as green architecture and is entirely covered with green Trellis (architecture), trellis. It features a rectangular, symmetrical garden surrounded by arcades topped by basket-shaped vases, creating an architectural and horticultural harmony. Two small oval ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the art museums, arts, science museums, science, natural history museums, natural history or Local museum, local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the List of most-visited museums, most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, the earliest known museum in ancient history, ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preserva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Trianon
The Grand Trianon () is a French Baroque style château situated in the northwestern part of the Domain of Versailles in Versailles, France. It was built at the request of Louis XIV as a retreat for himself and his ''maîtresse-en-titre'' of the time, the Marquise de Montespan, and as a place where he and invited guests could take light meals (''collations'') away from the strict etiquette of the royal court. The Grand Trianon is set within its own park, which includes the Petit Trianon (a smaller château built in the 1760s, during the reign of Louis XV). Trianon de Porcelaine Between 1663 and 1665, Louis XIV purchased the hamlet of Trianon, on the outskirts of Versailles. In 1670, he commissioned the architect Louis Le Vau to design a porcelain pavilion (Trianon de Porcelaine) to be built there. The façade was made of white and blue Delft-style porcelain (ceramic) tiles from the French manufactures of Rouen, Lisieux, Nevers and Saint-Cloud. Construction began in 1670 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petit Trianon - Jardin Du Pavillon Frais
Petit is a French-language surname literally meaning "small" or "little". Notable people with the surname include: *Adriana Petit (born 1984), Spanish multidisciplinary artist *Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820), French physicist *Amandine Petit (born 1997), French model, beauty pageant titleholder, and Miss France 2021 *Antoine Petit (1722–1794), French physician *Antoni Martí Petit, prime minister of Andorra * Cavelier Petit, American politician *François Pourfour du Petit (1664–1741), French anatomist *Henriette Petit (1894-1983), Chilean painter * Jean-Martin Petit (1772–1856), French General during the Napoleonic Wars *Monique Ruck-Petit (born 1942), Swiss and French chess master *Paul Petit (aviator) (1890-1918), French flying ace *Philippe Petit (born 1949), French high-wire artist *Pierre Petit (photographer) (1832–1909), French photographer *Pierre Petit (scholar) (1617–1687), French scholar, medical writer, and poet *Pierre Petit (engineer), (1598–1677), F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Gobain
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. () is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris as the Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs, and today headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it also produces a variety of construction, high-performance, and other materials. Saint-Gobain is present in 76 countries and employs more than 170,000 people. History 1665–1789: Manufacture royale Since the mid-17th century, luxury products such as silk textiles, lace, and mirrors were in high demand. In the 1660s, mirrors had become very popular among the upper classes of society: Italian cabinets, châteaux, ornate side tables, and pier-tables were decorated with these expensive and luxurious products. At the time, however, the French were not known for mirror technology; instead, the Republic of Venice was known as the world leader in glass manufacturing, controlling a technical and commercial monopol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gritstone
Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone. This term is especially applied to such sandstones that are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for paper and for grindstones to sharpen blades. "Grit" is often applied to sandstones composed of angular sand grains. It may commonly contain small pebbles. "Millstone Grit" is an informal term for a succession of gritstones which are to be found in the Pennines (including the Peak District) of northern England. These sediments were laid down in the late (upper) Paleozoic era, in the Carboniferous period, in deltaic conditions. The Millstone Grit Group is a formal stratigraphic term for this sequence of rocks. The gritstone edges of the Peak District The Peak District is an Highland, upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satory
Satory is an area south of Versailles (city), Versailles in France. It is mostly known for its military camp, housing: * Weapon-testing facilities of Nexter Systems * Barracks and facilities for French Gendarmerie, Gendarmerie including the Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, GIGN headquarters and the Mobile Gendarmerie armored grouping (GBGM) * Musique des Troupes de Marine * Military barracks The area hosted some of the Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics, shooting events for the 1900 Summer Olympics. p. 16. Retrieved 14 November 2010. The camp was also the original site for the Eurosatory international defense (military), defense trade fair, exhibition. References Venues of the 1900 Summer Olympics Olympic shooting ve ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centring
Centring, centre, centering"Centering 2, Centring 2" def. 1. Whitney, William Dwight, and Benjamin E. Smith. ''The Century dictionary and cyclopedia''. vol. 2. New York: Century Co., 1901. p. 885., or center is a type of falsework: the temporary structure upon which the stones of an arch or vault are laid during construction. Until the keystone is inserted an arch has no strength and needs the centring to keep the voussoirs in their correct relative positions. A simple centring without a truss is called a common centring. A cross piece connecting centring frames is called a lag or bolst.Ching, Frank (1995). ''A visual dictionary of architecture''. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. p. 3. . Centring is normally made of wood timbers, a relatively straightforward structure in a simple arch or vault; but with more complex shapes involving double curvature, such as a dome or the bottle-shaped flue in a Norman-period kitchen, clay or sand bound by a weak lime mortar would be used. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Richard
Claude may refer to: People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Callegari (1962–2021), English Arsenal supporter * Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer * Claude Kiambe (born 2003), Congolese-born Dutch singer * Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English * Claude Makélélé (born 1973), French football manager * Claude McKay (1890–1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet * Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter * Claude Rains (1889–1967), British-American actor * Claude Shannon (1916–2001), American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist * Madame Claude (1923–2015), French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet Places * Claude, Texas, a city * Claude, West Virginia, an unincorporated communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Pavilion
The French pavilion houses France's National pavilion, national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals. Background Organisation and building The pavilion was built in 1912 and designed by architect Faust Finzi, chief engineer for the Venice municipality. Its layout and details are similar to that of the German pavilion, whose architect was Finzi's former boss. Representation by year Art * 1962 — Alfred Manessier, Jean Messagier, Serge Poliakoff, André Marfaing, James Guitet * 1976 — Herve Fisher, Fred Forest, Raymond Hains, Alain Jacquet, Bertrand Lavier, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Sanejouand, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Jean-Paul Thenot (Commissioner: Pierre Restany) * 1982 — Simon Hantaï * 1984 — Jean Dubuffet * 1986 — Daniel Buren * 1991 — Jean Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc, Philippe Starck * 1993 — Jean-Pierre Raynaud * 1995 — César Baldaccini, César * 1997 — Fabrice Hybert * 1999 — Huang Yong Ping, Jean-Pierre Bertrand * 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Formal Garden
The French formal garden, also called the , is a style of "Landscape architecture, landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. Its epitome is generally considered to be the Gardens of Versailles designed during the 17th century by the landscape architect André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV and widely copied by other Template:Royal houses of Europe, European courts.Éric Mension-Rigau, "Les jardins témoins de leur temps" in ''Historia (revue), Historia'', n° 7/8 (2000). Classicism was also expressed in horticulture. Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie introduced an art of fruit pruning and bedding techniques that were to have a lasting impact on production gardens. But the term ‘classical garden’ was only used for pleasure gardens. History Renaissance influence The ''jardin à la française'' evolved from the French Renaissance garden, a style which was inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden at the beginning of the 16th century. The Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
