Gradhiva 25/2017. Gottfried Semper, habiter la couleur. Essais when pleasure and knowledge are

when pleasure and knowledge are mixed

Claire Déléry

the way opened towards the democratization of furniture consumption

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Gradhiva 25/2017. Gottfried Semper, habiter la couleur. Essais when pleasure and knowledge areThe German architect Gottfried Semper (1803 1879), who built the Dresden Opera House, the Zurich Polytechnic and the Burgtheater in Vienna, discovered the naturalist collections of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris from 1826. He then became interested in the relationship between plant and mineral forms and architectural ornaments, becoming a fervent defender of the "polychromy thesis". He went to Italy and then to Greece, where he examined ancient