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Le Mur des je t'aime

Monument

District : Montmartre / Pigalle / Trinité


Description :


Having collected the phrase « I love you » in over three hundred languages, the artist Frédéric Baron, wanted to display these messages of love on a wall.

The “I love you” wall stands at the centre of the Abbesses garden at Montmartre, and covers a surface area of 40 m² with a total of 511 squares in enamelled lava... The phrase, “I love you”, the sweetest and most romantic of expressions, features 311 times.

Here are a few extracts: «nian'-ni-né-sné-i-kou-nou» (India), «sé-rèt-lèk» (Hungary), «daï-sou-ki» (Japan), «ti amo» (Italy), «veille-el-skar-deille» (Norway), «èk-èt -you- lif» (South Africa).

photo D.R.

Informations :

Private consortium

Together, Frédéric BARON and Claire KITO have, (thanks to a competition organised by two private patrons, Olivier PELAT and Daniel BOULOGNE and the support of French poet Jean-Claude de FEUGAS), given a 40m² monument made of enamelled lava with 311 "je t'aime" ["I love you"]inscriptions, in 250 languages, to Paris , 'City of Light' and capital of romance. THE I LOVE YOU WALL is built out of 511 21x29.7 cm tiles. The size of the blocks of lava recall the sheets on which Frédéric BARON collected the written text. The bursts of colour on the fresco represent the pieces of a broken heart, the heart of a humanity so often torn apart and which the I LOVE YOU WALL tries to gather together.

Others informations

Architecturals styles :

Contemporary

Collections period :

20th century

Garden :

located in the Abbesses small garden

Opening days and times

Open/Closed :

Free access

Days of week :

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Open on those public holidays :

1 January | Easter | Easter Monday | 1 May | 8 May | Ascension Day | Whitsuntide | Whit Monday | 14 July | 15 August | 1 November | 11 November | 25 December

Individual tours

Independant tour :

Access to the I Love You Wall is free.

Services

Photo allowed.

Other services :

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Contact:

Access:

Square des Abbesses

75018 PARIS

 

District : Montmartre / Pigalle / Trinité

 

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