«It’s a distillation of Paris,» Jean Nouvel often proclaims. Nestled between the Louvre and the Palais-Royal, the next-generation Fondation Cartier opens with great fanfare on Saturday, October 25, for Contemporary Art Week, and its architect is unabashedly proud. He was already responsible for the iconic Boulevard Raspail building, a sumptuous glass cube surrounded by a garden where the institution – France’s pioneering artistic patronage foundation – had been based since 1994.
41 years after its creation by the jewelry group, the foundation has made a new wager: It is moving into a historic building that had been constructed for the 1855 Exposition Universelle. This true Haussmannian vessel has been thoroughly transformed by Nouvel.
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