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Andrea D'Alessio

Jr., President, D'Alessio Inspired Architectural Designs

安德里亚·达雷西欧

达雷西欧建筑设计事务所，董事长

French-inspired design beckons from grand images of Versailles Palace to the easy comfort and elegance of Provencal county.

Over the centuries, French art and architecture have influenced and played a leading role in the cultural life of the Western world. From the soaring Gothic and Romanesque architectural details of cathedrals, castles and châteaux to beautifully illustrated manuscripts of the Middle Ages to innovations of the impressionists and cubists to the fashion runways of Paris, French design has influenced the whole world.

What we now call France was originally the land of Gaul when the Romans conquered it in 51-B.C. Today, we still can see Ancient Roman and Greek influence in contemporary French architectural design as well as in the ruins that still stand in Arles, Nîmes, and Paris.

French style has influenced historic figures throughout the centuries from the great Frankish king Charlemagne, a member of the Carolingian family to Catherine the Great of Russia. The 18th-century Empress assimilated French culture and architectural design to many mansions built for the nobility during the Golden Age,l'age de raison.

Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia, Monticello was influenced by his time serving as minister to France for the United States and it was a French architect Pierre-Charles L'Enfant who supervised Washington DC urban planning. In the late 19th century, Château Style was popularized in the United States.

The curation for this book diligently assembled illustrations showing design innovation, craftsmanship and construction of current French design. Although not French castles or châteaux per se, they were built to be like-inspired by French architectural design. Utilizing distinctive classical French design elements from by-gone eras of Pre and Romanesque, Medieval-Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Second Empire, Beaux Arts, Normandy-Tudor, French County or other revival French styles of the 19th-century Modernism, gives these present-day designs a timeless elegance.

It has been said,“The secret of elegant style is exquisite period details in exacting proportion throughout that maintains the integrity of the whole, yet keeps the construction from being merely a massive structure.”

The contributors' illustrations in this book will give Francophile enthusiasts the chance to discover the secrets for French design style and its defining elements.

法式风格设计成就了宏伟、壮观的凡尔赛宫，也成就了简单舒适、优雅静谧的普罗旺斯小镇。

几个世纪以来，法式建筑艺术深深地影响着西方世界的文化构成，并在其中起着主导作用。从高耸的哥特式风格建筑和展示着中世纪设计风采的城堡，到印象派和立体派艺术家的创新，再到巴黎的时尚T台，法式风格设计甚至影响了整个世界。

我们现在所说的法国最初是高卢人的领地，在公元前51年被罗马人攻占。直到今天，古希腊罗马风格对当代法国建筑设计的影响，从现在依然坐落在阿尔勒、巴黎和尼姆的遗迹中可见一斑。

几个世纪以来，从身为法国卡洛林王朝成员的伟大的法兰克国王——查理曼大帝，到俄国的凯瑟琳大帝，法式建筑设计影响了许多历史名人。在其统治的鼎盛时期，凯瑟琳大帝，这位18世纪的俄国女皇在为贵族建造的许多住宅中都汲取了法式建筑设计的精髓。

美国第三任总统托马斯·杰斐逊位于弗吉尼亚州蒙蒂塞洛的居所的设计灵感来自于他任美国驻法国大使期间在法国所见的建筑；美国首都华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的城市规划是由法国建筑师Pierre-Charles L'Enfant指导完成的；19世纪末，法式城堡般的建筑设计风格在美国得以推广。

在本书的编写过程中，我们煞费苦心地收集了能够展示法式建筑设计风格中的思维创新和艺术技巧的众多插图。尽管书中所展示的住宅建筑本身并不是法国城堡或酒庄，但至少在法式建筑设计的启发下，它们被建造成法式建筑的样子。在建筑设计的过程中，独特的法式经典设计元素被广泛使用，从昔日的公元前和罗马帝国统治时期的建筑设计风格、中世纪的哥特式建筑设计风格、文艺复兴时期的建筑设计风格，到洛可可式、巴洛克式、新古典式，再到法兰西第二帝国时期的建筑设计风格、美术艺术风格、诺曼底-都铎式建筑设计风格、法式乡村风格，或是重新流行起来的19世纪现代派的法式建筑设计风格，这些设计元素赋予了当下建筑永恒的优雅与华贵。

有人曾说过：“优雅的建筑设计风格的秘密在于将其代表的某个历史时期所特有的精致细节贯穿应用于建筑中比例分配严格的各个部分，既能保持其建筑设计风格的整体性，同时又使建筑免于成为一个单纯意义上的巨大结构。”

我们在书中加入的插图将会为法式建筑设计风格的狂热崇拜者提供一个机会，去亲自探索法式建筑设计风格及其关键元素的个中奥妙。