Fantasy worlds
Modern Sculpture
Décoration et ornement
French Art
Jardins
Photograph collections
Sculpture
Bildband
Decoration and ornament
Design
Architecture
One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape. He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils, and used them to build the Palais ideal. Cheval's palace is one of many works of archi…
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