Toured Paris by foot this morning. We left at 9, which was still better then 6, but kind of early still. We walked past the Eifel Tower again but this time it was daylight so the pictures look fantastic with everything around visible. We stopped to take a group picture as well, which I am sure made us look even more like tourists than usual. We walked through neighborhoods with interesting architectural styles. We even passed on that was most obviously from the Art Nouveau period that was marvelously crafted with detail. We also passed Musee du quai Branly which is a building with plant and vines growing up the sides covering it.
We then went to the Musee D’Orsay. I didn’t really have any expectations; especially sense I have probably been inside of like 20 this trip alone, they are all starting to look very similar. There is a Van Gogh exhibit right now, which was extremely impressive. I ended up going around this entire museum myself, while listening to Britney Spears, and I ended up really liking a few of the artists a lot. I noticed I found myself looking for paintings with cottages or houses in them, more than the ones with people. There were a few people set up with their paints trying to mimic a painting but change it slightly. Like this one girl was painting to men facing off to the side; in the original one man was really old and the other was middle aged, but in her painting she made one man really young and the other just middle aged. It was a different concept, but it was amazing to watch her do it.I ended up walking through the entire museum and being one of the first finished, so I went outside and just ended up walking around a little with my professors while we waited for the others to finish. We walked by a few design shops and a few shops with odds and ends, different stuff like that. Once everyone was out of the museum, we got a little lost trying to find the train station. Following Darrin we actually went back and forth for a while then realized he was right the first time and finally got onto the train to go to Villa Savoy. That was a ways a way, but the best part of the ride today is when we got there, we couldn’t actually get out of the station because our tickets were not actually valid for it. Darrin did eventually get that all figured out and then got on the bus to take us to where we needed to be. Unfortunately it started raining on us once we got off the train, so my umbrella came in real handy today.
Villa Savoy is AMAZING!!! I feel like I may have taken more pictures today then almost anywhere else. Walking through the house, I took pictures of almost everything I saw! Villa Savoy is a Le Corbusier House, and sense I just finished tiny house, the entire thing reminded me of my tiny house project, only difference is that he didn’t have any restrictions when he built it. Most of the furniture that is in the house is his own, the shower had a unique design like his chaise lounge. His house did have stairs, but it is also completely accessible by wheel chair. After we walked through the entire house, the whole class sat and sketched the house outside, under a hut type structure.
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Villa Savoy is AMAZING!!! I feel like I may have taken more pictures today then almost anywhere else. Walking through the house, I took pictures of almost everything I saw! Villa Savoy is a Le Corbusier House, and sense I just finished tiny house, the entire thing reminded me of my tiny house project, only difference is that he didn’t have any restrictions when he built it. Most of the furniture that is in the house is his own, the shower had a unique design like his chaise lounge. His house did have stairs, but it is also completely accessible by wheel chair. After we walked through the entire house, the whole class sat and sketched the house outside, under a hut type structure. ~Petite Chambre~
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