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The eye of Juergen Teller on the construction site of 30 Montaigne

2022-05-25T05:23:29.048Z


This carcass of steel and cement is the explosive setting chosen by the famous photographer to immortalize the Dior collections. A report flirting with maieutics since the shop and the gallery since opened to the public represent the quintessence of the spirit of the founder of...


It was a titanic project for more than two years.

Of the historic address of 30, avenue Montaigne, there remained only a carcass that architectural prodigies have today transformed into a sumptuous place embellished with an astonishing interior garden and a gallery retracing an incredible saga.

That of the Dior house, this myth of elegance and luxury in perpetual reinvention.

No one, as well as Juergen Teller, could have glimpsed the convulsive beauty of this chaos of stones, concrete and scrap metal.

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Supporter of aesthetic extremes, visionary of the most absolute contrasts, the fashion photographer and elsewhere hastened to survey, with a few models, the construction site in full boiling.

Amazed like the child he remained, by the piles of breeze blocks, the cables and the metal frames involuntarily drawing an ephemeral museum of contemporary art, Juergen Teller knew how to play on the contrasts between the lines of the collections...

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Source: lefigaro

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