With the Quai Branly Museum inaugurated in 2006, at the initiative of President Jacques Chirac, whose name it took in 2016, Jean Nouvel signed his masterpiece on the banks of the Seine, with the Cartier Foundation, the Institut of the Arab world or the Philharmonie.
From the outset, for this setting of “non-Western arts” built at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the architect wanted to stand out from classic museum rooms in favor of more personal or more monumental spaces.
The environment is that of a large garden protected by a glass palisade and lit by a field of vertical neon lights.
It is punctuated with painted stilts like so many independent works, with suspended multicolored curves or caissons, like a port through which all the treasures of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas pass.
A green wall evokes a jungle, multiple trellises allow a subtle play of shadow and light.
Inside, leading to the main plateau, a large path winds its way, then, on this level, a path
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