HOT… Garden of the Gens de Mer
Story of a demolition Category : Art Sophie Bertran de Balanda 298 illustrations Size : 16,7 x 23,9 cm/ 224 pages / Colour Parenthèses ISBN : 9782863643396 / 28 € Release date : Feb 18, 21 Rights availableThis graphic account tells the story of the Hôtel des Gens de Mer in the oil port of Lavéra, from its construction to its scheduled demolition. As in a police investigation, step by step we follow ten years of painstaking research into history of a building with architecture symbolic of the 1960s. Memories, objects and images are collected here and carefully recorded like flowers in a herbarium.
