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On the patio, which is as much outdoor as it is in, John-Mark Horton took a queue from the original 1950s red ochre paint. The settee was made from a 19th-century bed and upholstered in the same ...
In 2020-2021, the room was redecorated by government architect Michel Goutal in the spirit of Lefuel's design of the 1860s, which triggered a lawsuit from the Cy Twombly Foundation, even though the painting was left untouched; [5] the Louvre and the Cy Twombly Foundation eventually found an agreement to modify the redecoration to bring it ...
A lanai or lānai is a type of roofed, open-sided veranda, patio, or porch originating in Hawaii. [1] [2] Many homes, apartment buildings, hotels and restaurants in Hawaii are built with one or more lānais.
The painting is one of the few Caillebotte works that have remained in public view since the artist's death in 1894. [ 3 ] Caillebotte created many paintings showing urban Paris from unexpected perspectives, such as a streetscape seen from indoors in Jeune homme à la fenêtre (1875), or the exaggerated perspective of Rue de Paris, temps de ...
Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings.
The Louvre Colonnade. The Louvre Colonnade is the easternmost façade of the Louvre Palace in Paris.It has been celebrated as the foremost masterpiece of French architectural classicism since its construction, mostly between 1667 and 1674.
Brise-soleil can comprise a variety of permanent sun-shading structures, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier in the Palace of Assembly [3] to the elaborate wing-like mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum [4] or the mechanical, pattern-creating devices of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel.
A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.