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Frontal view of the director's residence, from the south

Title:

Royal Saltworks; Director's Residence

Alternate Title:

Le bâtiment du Directeur

View:

Frontal view of the director's residence, from the south

Related Work:

part of Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

Creators:

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806)

Date:

1774-1779 (creation)

Style/Period:

Neoclassical

Location:

site: Saline Royale (Arc-et-Senans, Franche-Comté, France)

Location Note:

25610 Arc et Senans

Culture:

French

Materials:

stone

Work Types:

buildings; houses; official residences; buildings; industrial buildings; factories (structures); food processing plants; saltworks

Description:

This cruciform building is the focus of the most extreme design in the complex. It attests to the power, capacity, authority of the Director of the Saltworks. Its portico, composed of rare doric columns "with embossings" (alternating cubic and cylindrical drums), is surmounted by a triangular pediment pierced by an oculus, symbolic of an omniscient eye, knowledge, monitoring. The effect of dominating and monitoring is even more accentuated by the skylight which raises the roof of the building (Source: Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux [website]; http://www.salineroyale.com/)

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

construction (assembling)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A1-LCN-SW-3-A4

MDID Identifier:

3067

Archivision Set:

Archivision Base Collection

Collection:

Archivision Base Module

Collection:

Front Page Content

Record created:

June 7, 2018

Last modified:

Sept. 23, 2018

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