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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier.(...)
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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier.(...)
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Cyclogeography: journeys of a London bicycle courrier
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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
Cyclogeography: journeys of a London bicycle courrier
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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
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October 2016
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But(...)
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But(...)
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Shipping container (object lessons)
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the “development of containerization”-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shipping-container-9781501303142/#sthash.2H0oxVN8.dpuf
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the “development of containerization”-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shipping-container-9781501303142/#sthash.2H0oxVN8.dpuf
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il(...)
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il(...)
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Immeubles pour automobiles : histoire et transformations
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il suffira peut-être de re-programmer avec de nouveaux usages pour continuer la construction de la ville.
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il suffira peut-être de re-programmer avec de nouveaux usages pour continuer la construction de la ville.
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June 2018
June 2018
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia(...)
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia(...)
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The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.
The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the(...)
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the(...)
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The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express - are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian.
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express - are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian.
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March 2006
March 2006
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces(...)
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces(...)
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Naked Airport: a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces the cultural history of this defining institution from its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines to its frontline position in the struggle against international terrorism. From global politics to action movies to the daily commute, Gordon shows how the airport has changed our sense of time, distance, and style, and ultimately the way cities are built and business is done. He introduces the people who shaped and were shaped by this place of sudden transition: pilots like Charles Lindbergh, architects like Le Corbusier, and political figures like Fiorello LaGuardia and Adolf Hitler. Naked Airport is a profoundly original history of a long-neglected yet central component of modern life.
Naked Airport: a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces the cultural history of this defining institution from its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines to its frontline position in the struggle against international terrorism. From global politics to action movies to the daily commute, Gordon shows how the airport has changed our sense of time, distance, and style, and ultimately the way cities are built and business is done. He introduces the people who shaped and were shaped by this place of sudden transition: pilots like Charles Lindbergh, architects like Le Corbusier, and political figures like Fiorello LaGuardia and Adolf Hitler. Naked Airport is a profoundly original history of a long-neglected yet central component of modern life.
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May 2008, Chicago
May 2008, Chicago
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana,(...)
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana,(...)
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May 2004, Oxford, New York
May 2004, Oxford, New York
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Architecture and tourism: perception, performance and place
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius and Spain, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanean coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana and the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos, this book provides provocative insights into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius and Spain, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanean coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana and the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos, this book provides provocative insights into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.
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May 2004, Oxford, New York
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In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, "Geography of home" reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this rich book uncovers the hidden meanings (...)
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In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, "Geography of home" reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this rich book uncovers the hidden meanings (...)
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Geography of home : writings on where we live
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In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, "Geography of home" reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this rich book uncovers the hidden meanings of seemingly simple domestic spaces, in chapters ranging from "The front door" and "The porch" to "the library," "The kitchen," "The bedroom," "The bathroom," and "The garage," among others.
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In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, "Geography of home" reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this rich book uncovers the hidden meanings of seemingly simple domestic spaces, in chapters ranging from "The front door" and "The porch" to "the library," "The kitchen," "The bedroom," "The bathroom," and "The garage," among others.
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May 1999, New York
May 1999, New York
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and(...)
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and(...)
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Death tourism: disaster sites as recreational landscape
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and trauma mediated by thanotourism, or tourism of death? In Death Tourism, Brigitte Sion brings together essays by some of the most trenchant voices in the field to look at the tensions created by the juxtaposition of human remains and food stands, political agendas and educational programs, economic development and architectural ambition. How does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? A timely volume on an irresistible subject, this inquiry exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic.
Death tourism: disaster sites as recreational landscape
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and trauma mediated by thanotourism, or tourism of death? In Death Tourism, Brigitte Sion brings together essays by some of the most trenchant voices in the field to look at the tensions created by the juxtaposition of human remains and food stands, political agendas and educational programs, economic development and architectural ambition. How does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? A timely volume on an irresistible subject, this inquiry exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic.
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November 2015
November 2015
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La ville sur les rails
La ville sur les rails
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de(...)
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de(...)
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de véritables pôles innovants, au coeur des agglomérations comme en périphérie des grandes villes. Aux manettes : des hommes et des femmes passionnés, qui nous ont ouvert leurs portes. Nos portfolios, nouvelles, BD, reportages, illustrations se mêlent dans une invitation au voyage façon kaléidoscope. Au fil des pages, on découvre les trésors des archives ferroviaires, les pépites des plus grands architectes ou les projets les plus en pointe. On perce les secrets d’une résidence hôtelière du rail, on assiste en coulisses à de grands travaux nocturnes. On réfléchit aux moyens de contourner la contrainte, souvent forte dans ces lieux où l’infrastructure dictait sa loi. On imagine la ville de demain : durable, solidaire, belle, drôle, métisse.» -- Ateliers Henry Dougier
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de véritables pôles innovants, au coeur des agglomérations comme en périphérie des grandes villes. Aux manettes : des hommes et des femmes passionnés, qui nous ont ouvert leurs portes. Nos portfolios, nouvelles, BD, reportages, illustrations se mêlent dans une invitation au voyage façon kaléidoscope. Au fil des pages, on découvre les trésors des archives ferroviaires, les pépites des plus grands architectes ou les projets les plus en pointe. On perce les secrets d’une résidence hôtelière du rail, on assiste en coulisses à de grands travaux nocturnes. On réfléchit aux moyens de contourner la contrainte, souvent forte dans ces lieux où l’infrastructure dictait sa loi. On imagine la ville de demain : durable, solidaire, belle, drôle, métisse.» -- Ateliers Henry Dougier
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