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Port Grimaud I II III

2015

pigment inkjet prints, three-part

each  70,8 x 65,2 cm

 

»Port Grimaud I II III« shows 75 views of houses in a sequential order. These houses have been designed by the French architect François Spoerry (1911–1999) as an exclusive residential estate at the French Riviera. Inspired by Venice, Port Grimaud was erected in a lagoon in the bay of Saint-Tropez as a post-modern, Mediterranean planned city. To this day it is seen as a model for several comparable projects (amongst others: Palm Islands in Dubai). Each house of the estate equipped with a private landing pier, has been planned along the traditional Mediterranean building type following a seemingly individual ground plan, constructed in concrete. However, as in the series integrated quotations and the color chart show, the individuality is in fact a planned individuality that has been conceived by the architect up to the color design.

footnotes

 

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Lhermitte: If you would build Port Grimaud once again would it look like as we know it today?

Spoerry: Besides two exceptions Port Grimaud would look exactly like it is. On the one hand, there would be 70 units of social housing instead of the garden of the Rue du Septentrion with their entrances to the Chemin Communal. These apartments had been envisaged in the original blueprint all along, in order to establish permanent residents and an adequate mixture of social classes like in all Provençal villages. On the other hand I should have provided parking facilities in close proximity to the houses, like it is realized in P.G.II and P.G.III.

(Interview with François Spoerry, 1995)

 

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113    Francois Spoerry, Port Grimaud, 1965-69.

Drive your sailing boat right up to the manicured lawn of a Provençal fishing village in reinforced concrete. No two houses are the same, and the variety of spatial experience is well above the Modernist counterpart, making this village the major model for resort centres in the Mediterranean. Several Far Eastern versions are planned…

(Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-modern Architecture (sixth edition, 1991)

 

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One of the great international real-estate success stories of all time was Port Grimaud, the Mediterranean-style yachting resort village opposite St. Tropez, on the Cote d’Azur. Built in the early seventies its instant ancient architecture appealed to home-buyers, and Port Grimaud houses are beginning to command high resale premiums.

(New York Magazine, 1987, Developments: Jersey Side)

 

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April 30. 2011 at 15:01

Dr. Hartwig Heikenfeld said:

Kindly let me know which RAL color corresponds with the SIKKENS color hue K2 10 50. My wooden shutters in Port Grimaud South of France are bound to this SIKKEN color hue; now I would like to acquire aluminum shutters, but they need to have the same color hue (regulation of the ASL Port Grimaud)..

Thank you for your efforts!

Dr. H. H.

(www.deutsches-farbenzentrum.de/2010/02/farbsysteme-ral-ncs-brillux-caparol-sikkens-sto (Effective 05.2015)