Vision Looks Like Kaleidiscope

There's 107 years

By Mister from Paris

They stick to the image of Paris as the vaults stations they cover. These are the tiles of the underground. They have 107 years, are as old as the network itself, rectangular, 20 cm by 10, white, arranged in staggered. They were produced by the pottery of Gien and are beveled, not aesthetic, but just to return a little more light. That provided by 25 watt bulbs cheap professions who then lit the first stations opened s in 1900 at the Expo. Was a time when advertising in the subway was intended as a art and that therefore the dress of heavy frames of other tiles, yellow them, while each station name promised to background blue / purple . The subway trains, they were olive green in the second, red blood for the rich. While the cinema was born, all silent and all black and white, underground peak colors color codes for a different dynamic, the movement resolutely modern, smelly and noisy twentieth century.