{"id":773,"date":"2012-06-04T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T09:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2012-06-04T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T10:05:15","slug":"a-lighting-escape-arts-et-metiers-metro-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/a-lighting-escape-arts-et-metiers-metro-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"A lighting escape: Arts et M\u00e9tiers metro stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Close your eyes. Now,       imagine that you are in Paris. You are going to visit the Museum Arts et M\u00e9tiers,   the same one which has the station\u2019s name: \u00a0The Line 11 platform at the Arts et Metier metro stop,   considered the most beautiful subway station\u00a0. Not a coincidence, as you thought: the name of the metro stop has the museum as its reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arts et Metiers\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/69\/Arts_et_M%C3%A9tiers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\"><\/p>\n<p>Designed by architect\/interior designers Galmidi Yitzhar and industrial designer Yaksein Eliran, the concept was inspired by the Ficus Microcarpa trees that have been planted in Tel Aviv to provide shade. Underground, Yitzhar and Eliran use the form of the tree conversely, to provide illumination through skylights.<\/p>\n<p>The style station had been redesigned that way in 1994 by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/architecture\/a_world_where_architecture_is_the_driving_force_behind_society_the_fantastic_urban_designs_of_francois_schuiten_22580.asp\" title=\"\">Francois Schuiten<\/a>. The warm light turns Arts et Metiers shining, an astonishing subway that looks like if lit by the sun.<\/p>\n<p>It looks clear that the design\u2019s intent is to imitate and enhance the ambiance and feel of the outside world and to bring the street into the train station.<\/p>\n<p>We let you with Lor\u00e0nt Deutsch thoughts of this unique station:<\/p>\n<p><em>C\u2019est un sous-marin, le r\u00eave d\u2019un savant fou, le d\u00e9cor des Temps modernes de Charlie Chaplin? \u00a0On voudrait s\u2019y embarquer pour un longue voyage qui nous emporterait non pas ailleurs , mais ici m\u00eame, dans autre temps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s a submarine, the dream of a mad scientist, the decor of Charlie Chaplin\u2019s Modern Times?\u00a0We would like to embark \u00a0 for a long journey that will take us not elsewhere, but here in another time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/interiorexhibition_design\/things_wed_like_to_see_subway_stations_with_better_lighting_22586.asp\" title=\"\">via<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close your eyes. Now, imagine that you are in Paris. You are going to visit the Museum Arts et M\u00e9tiers, the same one which has the station\u2019s name: \u00a0The Line 11 platform at the Arts et Metier metro stop, considered the most beautiful subway station\u00a0. Not a coincidence, as you thought: the name of the metro stop has the museum as its reason. Designed by architect\/interior designers Galmidi Yitzhar and industrial designer Yaksein Eliran, the concept was inspired by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}