{"id":234060,"date":"2025-01-10T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=234060"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:28:38","slug":"l-observatoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/l-observatoire\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Observatoire"},"content":{"rendered":"

If, in the past, travelling was all about the destination, today, it\u2019s all about the journey. With the launch of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express\u2019 new suite, designed by French photographer and street artist JR, Belmond taught us an important lesson in the beauty of slowing down and, as they say, enjoying the ride.<\/p>\n

Trains have long been part of JR\u2019s story. \u2018I grew up in the suburbs,\u2019 he recalls. \u2018I would take the train to Paris and paste my first photos in it, over the metro maps.\u2019 Worth noting is his \u2018Women are Heroes\u2019 project, in which the artist photographed women in Nairobi, Kenya, and covered a whole train with their eyes. This, in particular, was what made VSOE general director Pascal Deyrolle think of him for the design of a new carriage four years ago. \u2018We\u2019ve created history,\u2019 Deyrolle says. \u2018Not just an immersive artistic experience, a cabinet of curiosities by JR, but something that will continue to exist long after we\u2019re gone.\u2019<\/p>\n

Once a dining car, \u2018L\u2019Observatoire\u2019 is now a carriage-long accommodation fair to label an artwork in motion. JR was given free creative licence to reimagine the interiors, provided he preserved the train\u2019s pre-1945 character, initially conceptualised by art deco designers such as Ren\u00e9 Prou and Ren\u00e9 Lalique.<\/p>\n

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Photos Courtesy of Belmond<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If, in the past, travelling was all about the destination, today, it\u2019s all about the journey. With the launch of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express\u2019 new suite, designed by French photographer and street artist JR, Belmond taught us an important lesson in the beauty of slowing down and, as they say, enjoying the ride. Trains have long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":234049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18532,18542,18563],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234062,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234060\/revisions\/234062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}