Cite de l’Architecture & Heritage in Paris, presents a delicate exhibition entitled Paper Architecture. The collection looks at iconic buildings and the creation of imaginary cities made of paper thin sheets. Paris-based designer Matilde Nivet has taken the context of urbanism and the city as the source for her work using a pop-up technique combining folding, decoupage and montage to represent three-dimensional architecture on a larger scale. Danish designer Peter Callesen explores the transformation of a simple A4 white sheet into figures that expand into the space surrounding them. The fragile result is reminiscent of magnificent middle age castles and doomed fairy tales.
Paper Architecture, until March 17th.
Other notable Flamboyant Gothic monuments:
Notre-Dame, Esplanade Notre-Dame, 75001 Paris
Musée National du Moyen-âge, Hôtel de Cluny, 6 Place Paul Painlevé, 75005 Paris
Château de Vincennes, Avenue de Paris, 94300 Vincennes
Sainte-Chapelle, 6 Boulevard du Palais, 75001 Paris
Basilique Saint-Denis, 1 rue de la légion d’Honneur, 93200 Saint-Denis
Tour Jean Sans Peur, 20 rue Etienne Marcel, 75002 Paris
Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. 1, Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, 75116 Paris
