Place Around The World With Amazing Architecture
Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Palais Ideal
Hello everyone it's been awhile since i wrote something on my blog, i'm being so busy lately that it was so hard to update my blog, well last monday i got an assignment to post about a place with amazing architecture around the world so here goes....
The first places that come to my mind while i'm thinking about place with amazing architecture was France's Eiffel Tower, Italy's Pisa Tower, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, Taiwan's Taipei 101 but tower's already been reviewed too much for me. Next Greece's Colosseum, England's Stonehenge, America's Liberty Statue.. They're still too common for my taste... So that's why i searched amazing places on google.. and i accidentally found one that even have an amazing story
It was the Ferdinand Cheval Palace which was more known under the name of Palais Ideal for me it was the greatest, most extraordinary, and the most beautiful example of the Naive art architecture which have the childlike simplicity in technique and subject matter.. But the extraordinary effort of the creator has turned the "child play" into a jaw dropping wonderland made by stone, and i'm not exaggerating.. It is not made by super complex calculation or super modern tools.
It's
located at 8 Rue du Palais Idéal, 26390 Hauterives, France. It was bulit by Ferdinand
Cheval. At first you will thought that Ferdinand Cheval is a rich prince, or a rich conglomerate, or a ruthless dictator or even maybe a king? If you think so then you're wrong, he's just an ordinary guy, a postman to be exact. He spent 33 years of his life to create one of the greatest architectural piece in the world.
Ferdinand Cheval was born in Charmes-sur-I'Herbasse on 1836, he left home at 13 to become a baker's apprentice but later decided to be a postman. He started the construction of his palace at April 1879, he wrote at his journal :
"I was walking very
fast when my foot caught on something that sent me stumbling a few meters away,
I wanted to know the cause. In a dream I had built a palace, a castle or caves,
I cannot express it well... I told no one about it for fear of being ridiculed
and I felt ridiculous myself. Then fifteen years later, when I had almost
forgotten my dream, when I wasn't thinking of it at all, my foot reminded me of
it. My foot tripped on a stone that almost made me fall. I wanted to know what
it was... It was a stone of such a strange shape that I put it in my pocket to
admire it at my ease. The next day, I went back to the same place. I found more
stones, even more beautiful, I gathered them together on the spot and was
overcome with delight... It's a sandstone shaped by water and hardened by the
power of time. It becomes as hard as pebbles. It represents a sculpture so
strange that it is impossible for man to imitate, it represents any kind of
animal, any kind of caricature."
"I said to myself: since Nature is willing to do the
sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture"
For the next thirty-three years, Cheval picked up stones
during his daily mail round and carried them home to build the Palais idéal.He
spent the first twenty years building the outer walls. At first, he carried the
stones in his pockets, then switched to a basket. Eventually, he used a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil
lamp.
In the heart
of a flourishing garden, he imagines a uninhabitable palace populated by
an incredible bestiary: octopus, hind, caiman, elephant, pelican, bear, birds…
But also giants, fairies, mythological figures or architectures from all the
continents. An architectural work as unclassifiable as universal.
Cheval also wanted to be buried in his
palace. However, since that is illegal in France, he proceeded to spend eight
more years building a mausoleum for himself in the Hauterives cemetery.
He died on 19 August 1924, about a year after he had finished building it, and
is buried there.
Just before his death, Cheval began to receive some recognition
from luminaries like André Breton and Pablo
Picasso. His work is commemorated in an essay by Anaïs Nin. In 1932, the German artist Max Ernst created a collage titled The Postman Cheval. The work
belongs to the Peggy
In 1969, André
Malraux, the Minister of Culture,
declared the Palais a cultural landmark and had it
officially protected. In 1986
Cheval was put on a French postage stamp.
It is open for visitors every day except Christmas Day, New Year's
Day and 15 to 31 January.
Chuck Palahniuk's novel Choke includes a character named Denny who,
like Cheval, is an uneducated deliveryman who gradually collects and assembles
stones into his "dream home."
The Ideal Palace is a super amazing place that i wish i can visit it at near future
Thank You Very Much For Reading :)
- The Awesome One
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