Piscine Molitor
The Piscine Molitor (also Grands établissements balnéaires d'Auteuil ) is an under monument protection standing pool in the Paris district Auteuil . It is named after the nearby Porte Molitor .
history
The late Art Deco bathroom was designed by the architect Lucien Pollet and opened by Johnny Weissmuller in 1929 . The first bikini in the fashion world was presented at the summer pool on July 5, 1946 (designed by Louis Réard , presented by Micheline Bernardini ) after the first fashion photos of models in bathing suits had been taken in the bathroom in 1934.
The original swimming pool comprised an outdoor summer pool with 50 m lanes (was also used for ice skating in winter) and a 33 m long winter pool inside the building. Both pools are surrounded by three-story walkways, which, with the numerous changing rooms on the two upper floors, shaped the image of the bathroom. The winter pool was closed off by a glass roof. In the swimming pool building there were numerous stained glass windows from Louis Barillet's studio .
Since the closure in 1989, a citizens' initiative tried to reopen. During this time, the vacant and increasingly declining building developed into a popular street art object.
On May 19, 2014, after a renovation period of two and a half years and construction costs of 80 million euros, the pool was reopened as a luxury complex with a hotel (124 rooms), spa and a restaurant, without a glass roof construction for the former winter pool. The hotel is operated by the MGallery hotel chain, which belongs to the Accor Group, and the spa is operated by the Clarins cosmetics company. Only club members and hotel guests are allowed to swim, while schools are allowed to use the pool for swimming lessons three half days a week.
miscellaneous
In the 2001 novel Shipwreck with Tiger by Yann Martel , the main character Pi was named after the swimming pool.
Individual evidence
- ↑ patrimoine-de-france.org: Piscine Molitor à Paris ( Memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 25, 2007
- ↑ a b c Magnificent baths in Paris: Where the world saw the bikini at Spiegel Online , May 20, 2014 (accessed on May 20, 2014).
- ↑ La mythique piscine Molitor rouvre ... mais pas pour tout le monde at tempsreel.nouvelobs.com, May 19, 2014 (accessed on May 20, 2014).
Web links
- Association Piscine Molitor
- Piscine Molitor in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 43 " N , 2 ° 15 ′ 12" E