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FOLLY [3 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

folly: an item in the "Site Features" class of the "Built Environment Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

pavillon de jardin : objet de la classe «Articles d'aménagement» de la catégorie «Éléments du bâtiment».

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Elements
DEF

A useless and generally foolish building, erected in the grounds of a wealthy eccentric, especially in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

OBS

A costly but useless structure built to satisfy the whim of some eccentric and thought to show his folly; usually a tower or a sham Gothic or classical ruin in a landscaped park intended to enhance the view or picturesque effect.

OBS

folly ... The word also refers to an architecturally frilly gazebo or garden pavilion, the form that follies more often took in the United States during the period of their popularity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'architecture
DEF

Au 18e siècle, propriété d'agrément bâtie en Île-de-France.

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
DEF

Folly .... an architecturally frilly gazebo or garden pavilion, the form that follies more often took in the United States during the period of their popularity.

CONT

Garden ... showing the use of a shelter structure, the pavilion, as the main focal point of a landscape design ....

OBS

See record "folly/folie".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
DEF

Construction légère élevée dans un jardin, un parc, etc., et destinée surtout à servir d'abri.

CONT

Le jardin persan développa de très bonne heure l'art des pavillons disséminés un peu partout, et, plus particulièrement, aménagés à la tête des perspectives. Un grand nombre de parcs connus ont un pavillon en leur centre (...) Ce pavillon, situé à l'endroit où le symbolisme du jardin place la Terre, est volontiers juché sur une éminence artificielle, elle-même entourée d'un canal. (...) Ces pavillons affectent toutes sortes de formes, dont certaines dérivent des tentes (...)

Spanish

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