Architectures
Season 1 • Episode 28: The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans • Watch with subtitles
Episode 28: The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
April 2, 2005 • 26 min
The visionary architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical design, built a monumental factory for the king of France at the end of the 18th century. It is pragmatic and utopian, an aesthetic revolution.
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