2023-12-15 08:35:45
Born in 1839, Sarah Winchester was an American who spent 20 years building a house according to her own wishes and desires. Despite the haunted house legends, Sarah was not only a superstitious woman, but a woman who took on an unusual building project.
His house, located near San Francisco, still has 161 rooms today and features architectural oddities, such as staircases leading to the ceiling and doors opening into the void. These particularities have contributed to the legend of madness and excess which surrounds the name of Sarah Winchester in the United States, she reminds us of a certain Ferdinand,…
The exhibition highlights the parallels between Sarah Winchester et Ferdinand Cheval. These two characters built the palace of their dreams, defying the constraints of their social environment and their time.
The exhibition is divided into two parts. The first goes back and forth between Winchester and Cheval, while the second is devoted to contemporary artists who have immersed themselves in the legend of Sarah Winchester.
The exhibition offers a universe rich in unusual objects and archive images. Visitors are invited to open their ears to the astonishing music of a 1900 gramophone, created by Laurent Paulré of Radio France.
An exhibition, which promises vibrations until January 14.
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