Chandelier and clock storage, Batiment Perret

Clock, 1 of a pair known as Marly's Horses, c. 1824, acquired in 1988 when the Treasury moved from the Louvre to Bercy, in the Reserve des Lustres et des Horloges, storage of chandeliers and clocks, in the Batiment Perret, designed by Auguste Perret, 1874-1954, and built 1935-36, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture and administers the Gobelins Manufactory and Beauvais Manufactory, both historic tapestry workshops, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The concrete colonnaded building has space for workshops, threshing and washing areas, storage rooms and exhibition halls. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1824 75013 Batiment Conservation Couronne Finances Garde-meuble Horloges Lustres Marly Ministere Mobilier Perret Storing Treasury Wrapper

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