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Terms and conditions applyLa fantastique architecture dAlban Chambon
Jean-Paul Midant
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Format: Book
Publisher: Les Archives d'Architecture Moderne
Date Published: Jan 2010
Stock Code: 71542
ISBN: 9782871432319
Binding: Paperback
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Alban Chambon studied sculpture and decoration in Paris and moved to Brussels in 1868, where he opened his own ornamental sculpture and decorating firm (1876). He then became master of work with a recognised talent. As head of this increasingly successful enterprise, Chambon collaborated with some of the leading architects of Brussels in the 1880s and 1890s and thus participated in both the design and construction of many prominent projects. Among them was a series of theatre interiors in Brussels and Amsterdam on which he worked with the architects W. Kuhnen, Albert Dumont and Charles Gys. These projects include the Theatre de la Bourse (1885-8; destr.), Brussels.
Almost nothing remains of his best work of the 1880s and 1890s, although its character may be judged by his surviving interiors on the ground floor of the Hotel Metropole. Such extraordinarily rich, exotic, outlandishly eclectic yet not historicising creations for Belgium's high society have been seen as direct precursors of Belgian Art Nouveau architecture. Chambon died in Brussels in 1928.This book redraws the ascent and the fall of this man who was to invent a new architecture.
Text within the book is in French only.
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