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- With no architectural skills whatsoever, Ferdinand Cheval managed to build his Ideal Palace, combining several styles and using the Bible and Hingu mythology as inspiration. He spent 20 years on the outer walls alone, binding the stones together with lime, mortar and cement and decorating them with all sorts of chapel and temple models.
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In 1958, Ado Kyrou produced Le Palais idéal, a short film about Cheval's palace. After admiring Cheval's work, Picasso created a series of drawings telling a narrative, in a cartoon fashion, which is now recognized as Facteur Cheval sketchbook in 1937.
Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman who, inspired by a dream, spent 35 years building the "Palais Ideal", a unique and whimsical palace considered one of France's cultural landmarks and a prime example of naive art architecture.
Three staircases lead to the Terrace, where Ferdinand Cheval placed his “stumbling block”, the first stone on which he tripped and which inspired him to create his ideal Palace. At the top of the Palace, between prickly pear trees and aloes, stands the Barbary Tower.
Ferdinand Cheval (19 April 1836 – 19 August 1924) was a French postman who spent thirty-three years of his life building Le Palais Ideal (the “Ideal Palace”) in the French village of Hauterives from pebbles. That’s right, whole buildings built from only pebbles.
Old Photo (1905) by Joseph Douzet Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace. At the little borough of Hauterives, in the pretty valley of the Galaure, not far from the town of Valence-sur-Rhône, in...