September 2014. A second base study is launched following the selection of a new location to accommodate the artwork : the ballroom of the Town Hall in the XII arrondissement ! Visuals arrive yes yes yes ... soon !
Marianne, Jean Alexandre Pézieux, marbre, 300 Kg, 1897.
Client : DPA (Directorate of Heritage and Architecture of the City of Paris, Maryline Muller)
Team : La prairie atelier, Ingerop (Pierre-Alexandre Cot, Structural Engineer)
Enterprises : Gilles Chabrier atelier
A luminous glass pedestal. With the help of Gilles Chabrier, master glass artist.
Base project to be set up underneath the grand staircase of the Paris XIIth district city hall.
A suspended glass pedestal for a Marianne, emblem of the French republic, makes us wonder about the ambivalence between fragility and strength of republican institutions.
