Saint-Nazaire, France, 2000
Ocean liners past and present
Saint-Nazaire is the town that gave birth to the France
and to many other prestigious ocean liners.
This is why the Town Council decided to open a museum to pay homage to
them all. During the Second World War, Saint-Nazaire also had to shelter
German submarines in an enormous bunker built by the Nazis.
Indestructible and empty, it took the courage of the Mayor to decide to
convert the tragic remains into a cultural venue.
So it was here that François Seigneur and I divided the bunker
into two immense areas for each of us to work on. One was to be the outside
of an ocean liner, the Grand Large, and the other, the inside
of an ocean liner, from the engine room or the hold to the Captain's gangway,
not omitting the dining room, the hairdressing saloon and all the cabins.
| type of achievement | Permanent exhibition-show |
| client | Saint-Nazaire Town Council |
| partner | François Seigneur & Sylvie de La Dure company |
| production | Saint-Nazaire Town Council |
| location | Old sub-marine dock, Saint-Nazaire, France |
| attendance | 150 000 visitors per year |
| floor space | approx. 3 500m2 |
| budget for scenography & architecture |
€6.7 million |
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PROJECT DETAILS
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The main dining room
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Urban Archaeology . Paris, France, 1977 |
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Cités-Cinés . France, Belgium, Canada, 1987-90 |
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The Movie Train . France, 1990 |
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The French Pavilion . Expo'92, Seville, Spain, 1991 |
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Discovery Pavilion . Expo'92, Seville, Spain, 1992 |
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Funny Stories . Montreal, Canada, 1993 |
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The Neolithic Museum . Bougon, France, 1993 |
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Stadium Stardust . Paris, France, 1993 |
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Paris is free . Paris, France, 1994 |
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Cités-Cinés 2 . Paris, France, 1995 |
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High Flight . Montreal, Canada, 1995 |
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Cinema Avenue . Tokyo, Japan, 1996 |
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A trip to Wonderland . Tokyo, Japan, 1997 |
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The Utopia Pavilion . Expo'98, Lisbon, Portugal, 1998 |
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Satie's houses . Honfleur, France, 1998 |
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Expo'00 . Theme Park . Hannover, Germany, 1998 |
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Tokyo Toyota Museum . Japan, 1999 |
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Oceanliner Museum . Saint-Nazaire, France, 2000 |
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Micropolis . Saint-Leons, France, 2000 |
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Turin National Cinema Museum . Italy, 2000 |
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The Audi Pavilion-Autostadt . Wolfsburg, Germany, 2000 |
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Time for time . Paris, France, 2000 |
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Exhibit Master Plan . Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2002-03 |
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Restaurant . Turin National Cinema Museum, Italy, 2003 |
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Barolo Wine Museum . Italy, 2003-07 |
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L.A. Light-Motion-Dreams . Los Angeles, USA, 2004-05 |
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Turin Automobile Museum . Italy, 2004-08 |
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Collapse? . Los Angeles, USA, 2005-06 |
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Suzhou Science Museum . China, 2005-08 |
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Television Museum . Aubervilliers, France, 2005-09 |
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1913 Building Galleries . Los Angeles, USA, 2006-08 |
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BIE Expo x Expos . Milan, Italy, 2008 |
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Future to come . 2011 |
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Future Pavilion . Shangaï, China, 2010 |
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Memorial of Slavery . Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, 2009 |
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450th birthday of the University of Geneva . Geneva, Switzerland, 2009 |