Monday, December 26, 2011
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
NAPOLEONIC Vestiges
‘Photographs of veterans of Napoleon’s Grande Armée and the Guard wearing their original uniforms and insignia. Likely date May 5, 1858 – all are wearing the Saint Helene medal, issued on August 12, 1857 to all veterans of the wars of the Revolution and the Empire. May 5 – the anniversary of the death of Napoleon. Every year on that date veterans gathered in Paris:
‘‘The base and railings of the column of the Place Vendôme appear this day decked out with the annual offerings to the memory of the man whose statue adorns the summit. The display of garlands of immortelles, and other tributes of the kind, is greater than usual… the old soldiers of the Empire performed their usual homage yesterday at the same place.’
Times - May, 1855‘
- Brown University Library
via Retronaut
‘‘The base and railings of the column of the Place Vendôme appear this day decked out with the annual offerings to the memory of the man whose statue adorns the summit. The display of garlands of immortelles, and other tributes of the kind, is greater than usual… the old soldiers of the Empire performed their usual homage yesterday at the same place.’
Times - May, 1855‘
- Brown University Library
via Retronaut
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Pebble in the sand...
MAD armored pebble outside, smooth and bright organic insides. Monumental.
Chinese architects MAD have sent us new images of a museum they completed earlier this year in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, in the Gobi desert.
Chinese architects MAD have sent us new images of a museum they completed earlier this year in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, in the Gobi desert.
Ordos Museum by MAD from Dezeen on Vimeo.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
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