Le Manège d'Andrea
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Le Manège d'Andrea is a carousel that was built by la MACHINE
in Toulouse
, France
, in 1999 under the artistic and technical direction of François Delaroziér. Esentially made with basic materials such as wood, leather, glass, iron, feathers, steel, tin and copper, together with several pieces from junk (motorbikes, electric fans, etc), Le Manège d'Andrea was conceived to be recreational while using a fantastical, poetic, 19th–century fin-de-siècle imagery. Every figure or seat has several dispositives that can be activated by the children riding them.
La Machine
La Machine is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-Demographics:At the 1999 census, the population was 3735. On 1 January 2004, the estimate was 3649.-Mining city:The mining exploitation marked the history of this town...
in Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, in 1999 under the artistic and technical direction of François Delaroziér. Esentially made with basic materials such as wood, leather, glass, iron, feathers, steel, tin and copper, together with several pieces from junk (motorbikes, electric fans, etc), Le Manège d'Andrea was conceived to be recreational while using a fantastical, poetic, 19th–century fin-de-siècle imagery. Every figure or seat has several dispositives that can be activated by the children riding them.