Product details

Art.No:

75021

Author / Artist:

Ribart de Chamoust [, Charles]

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Orné de planches gravées d’après les dessins de l’auteur. [Reprint]

Keyword:

Architektur - Geschichte, Geschichte - 18 Jht., Frankreich

Binding / Picture Size:

Kart. m. gold. Deckelpräg.

Publisher:

Gregg Press

Place of publishing:

Farnborough

Year of publication:

1967

Book Details / Size:

2°, 56 S. u. 21 tlw. gefaltete Taf.

Condition:

Kapitale etw. bestossen, Einband lichtrandig, innen tadellos.

Description:

EA dieses Reprints der Ausgabe 1733. Exemplar des Schweizer Architektur- und Kunsthistorikers Georg Germann (1935 - 2016). - «Charles François Ribart de Chamoust (fl. 1776–1783) was an 18th-century French architect. In 1758, Ribart planned an addition to the Champs-Élysées in Paris, to be constructed where the Arc de Triomphe now stands. It consisted of three levels, to be built in the shape of an elephant, with entry via a spiral staircase in the underbelly. The building was to have a form of air conditioning, and furniture that folded into the walls. A drainage system was to be incorporated into the elephant's trunk. The French Government, however, was not amused and turned him down. Napoleon would later conceive a similar construction, the Elephant of the Bastille. Little of his work now survives.»