Maisons closes parisiennes, Brothels in Paris 1930
Abundantly illustrated and richly documented, this great hardcover book with 300 pages covered with a red velvet jacket with gold letters, presents the Parisian brothels during the roaring twenties.
Closed to the outside world, the brothel treats its distribution and decorations. The system offers a built sex labyrinthine path, resulting lock chamber, hallways, lounges, stairs to the rooms, shelters ultimate sexual consumption. Juxtaposing the perspectives, the house of illusions its guests in movie atmospheres: Maharaja palace, transatlantic liners cabins, Japanese style boudoir, medieval dungeon...
Upscale brothels are based on cafes and fashionable dance halls, while workshop or squalid slaughter houses in the city present their prison walls.
Vintage photos, maps and unpublished police reports support the author, architect, push the doors of these places and make us discover the intricacies of their "inverted architectures".
Contents:
- Approach
- Brothels and society: historical truths and diversions
- Paris during the roaring twenties: sensuality and sexuality in the interwar
- The streets and their reversed architecture
- Figures of the night in Paris
- Secrets of the pleasure machine
- Between function and dream: decoration and furniture
- Strolling on remnants
The French texts are written by Paul Teyssier.
Printed in 2010, this book is NEW and is 10 inches x 12 inches ( 25 cm x 31 cm )
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