
The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
S1E28 · 2005-04-02 · 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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