Galerie d'Orléans

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Galerie d'Orléans
location
Arrondissement 1.
quarter Palais-Royal
Beginning Péristyle de Valois
The End Péristyle de Montpensier
morphology
length 66 m
width 21.8dep1
history
Emergence 1829-1831
Coding
Paris 6858

The Galerie d'Orléans is located in the Quartier du Palais-Royal and corresponds to the inner courtyard of the Palais Royal , which is important as a commercial gallery .

history

The gallery was built from 1829 to 1831 according to plans by the French architect Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine and was one of the first shopping galleries in the world. It is the prototype of many later buildings such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II . The gallery itself replaced the Galerie de Bois , which was previously located in the garden of the Palais Royal.

While earlier buildings with similar uses received daylight from the ceiling through round openings, Fontaine used a fully glazed vault for this building, which gives the impression of being in the outside space while at the same time being protected from the weather.

In 1935 the gallery was removed as part of the “restoration” of the Palais Royal.

  • The gallery on an engraving from 1831 by Fenner, Sears & Co. Sc. after a drawing by Augustus Pugin

  • Construction of the gallery (1829)

  • Floor plan (1833)

location

It is framed by the Galerie du Jardin in the north, the Galerie des Proues in the east, the Galerie de la Cour-d'Honneur in the south and the Galerie de Chartres in the west.

particularities

In 2012, due to extensive work in the Comédie-Française building and in the Salle Richelieu, a temporary building called Théâtre Éphémère was added to the Galerie d'Orléans. It is a 750-seat wooden theater designed by Alain-Charles Perrot, the chief architect of the Monument Historique . It was inaugurated on January 11, 2012 and remained in operation until March 2013.

literature

  • Sigfried Giedion : space, time, architecture. The emergence of a new tradition . Verlag für Architektur Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7608-8106-8 , p. 138-139 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacques Hillairet , Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1972, 1985, 1991, 1997, etc. (1st edition 1960), 1476 pages, 2 volumes, ISBN 2-7073-1054-9
  2. ^ "Structure bois pour le théâtre éphémère de la Comédie-Française" , Le Moniteur , January 10, 2012

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 49.3 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 14.7"  E