Piscine Molitor

Piscine inaugurée en 1929, Molitor, dans le XVIe arrondissement de Paris, est devenue en 2014 un complexe avec hôtel, restaurant, bar et toit-terrasse. Cet album retrace l'histoire de sa conception, sa construction et sa restauration et propose un panorama des ambiances, décors et espaces intérieurs après opérations de réhabilitation.

So many « ones », have said so many things... that they made Molitor a true legend. In the end, what has become that place, forgotten by Parisians for 24 years, reborn in their mind through memories that remain passionate. They have the worth of memory wiped out by time, but that still form together the memento of life at Molitor.. The walls have contained so many deeds, stories and occurrences that they ended up looking like a strong vault of secrets. The building would be forgotten, witness of Art Deco era, in favor of what it contained. Molitor tells itself better than any description would.. Nowadays, rumors on the Molitor swimming pool renovations' mingle with some reminiscences in a fog of inaccuracies. Everyone knows Molitor.... Everyone knows that ... Everyone knows someone who had known ... But the truth has many surprises.. And yet, its renovation has awakened true memories inked in concrete, and revealed a style in an era, a swimming pool in a trend, a place in a neighborhood... Information that complete and, sometimes even correct Parisian collective memory..