Public Spaces as Home

“Architects discouraged decorating practices that made domestic interiors resemble streets. Formerly, slabs of concrete, stone or marble had been used both as flooring inside apartments and as pavement for streets, but now they began to be confined strictly to the street.  The street thus became a mineral realm whose hard, unyielding durability was perceptibly distinct form the more delicate, vegetal ground of the home.” Marcus, Sharon - Haussmannization as Anti-Modernity: The Apartment House in Parisian Urban Discourse a-l-ancien-regime: Hotel de la Marine (Paris) The hôtel de la Marine (also known as the hôtel du Garde-Meuble) is a building on place de la Concorde in Paris, to the east of Rue Royale. It was built between 1757 and 1774 on what was then known as place Louis XV, with a façade by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Premier architecte du Roi and designer of the square. The identical building to its west now houses the Hôtel de Crillon.

“Architects discouraged decorating practices that made domestic interiors resemble streets. Formerly, slabs of concrete, stone or marble had been used both as flooring inside apartments and as pavement for streets, but now they began to be confined strictly to the street. 

The street thus became a mineral realm whose hard, unyielding durability was perceptibly distinct form the more delicate, vegetal ground of the home.”

Marcus, Sharon - Haussmannization as Anti-Modernity: The Apartment House in Parisian Urban Discourse

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Hotel de la Marine (Paris)

The hôtel de la Marine (also known as the hôtel du Garde-Meuble) is a building on place de la Concorde in Paris, to the east of Rue Royale. It was built between 1757 and 1774 on what was then known as place Louis XV, with a façade by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Premier architecte du Roi and designer of the square. The identical building to its west now houses the Hôtel de Crillon.

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