Le Palais Idéal of Ferdinand Cheval, a postman who...

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Original by architecture of silence

10:00 am - Wed, Jan 11, 2012: 10 notes

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Le Palais Idéal of Ferdinand Cheval, a postman who spent 33 years making palace in Hauterives, France.

via architectureofsilence:

Like the surrealists, the lettrists were thoroughly impressed by Cheval’s Palais Idéal. That the Palais had been produced by a postman as a continual, playful, expressive outpouring only added to the attractions of the building’s fantastic appearance. Moreover, it mixed its sources and references with utter indifference to precedent. It was, in Potlatch’s opinion, “the first manifestation of an architecture of disorientation” in the way in which it “‘détournes’ the forms of diverse exotic monuments, and of a stone vegetation.”

-Simon Sadler, The Situationist City