Welcome back to 1-800-1800! This week we are joined by the one and only Abigail Sandler, architect and author of Price Upon Request, a newsletter exploring the role of ornament in our modern lives. Abby delights us with discussion of her favorite building, the Menier Chocolate Factory in Noisiel, France. Designed by Jules Saulnier (1817-1881), the building is distinguished by its iron frame and ornamental brick infill. Listen, like, and subscribe! Xo
Herman Melville statue in New Bedford.
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872.
Charles Frederick Worth, Ball gown, 1872
Edgar Degas, Dance Class at the Opera, 1872
Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, 1872
1-800-1871 with Sara Hinckley, for background on the Paris Commune.
France’s colonial expansion.
Did you know chocolate is a tree?
Loveman, Kate. “The Introduction of Chocolate into England: Retailers, Researchers, and Consumers, 1640-1730.” Journal of Social History 47, no. 1 (2013): 27–46. http://www.jstor.org.yale.idm.oclc.org/stable/43306044. Featuring the Earl of Sandwich’s recipe for a frozen choclate treat:
“Prepare the chocolatti [to make a drink] . . . and Then Putt the vessell that hath the Chocolatti in it,into a Jaraffa[i.e. a carafe] of snow stirred together with
some salt, & shaike the snow together sometyme & it will putt the Chocolatti
into tender Curdled Ice & soe eate a with spoons.”
Chocolatier, the Game.
Eplett, Layla. “For Oompa-Loompas, Orange Was the New Black.” Gastronomica 16, no. 2 (2016): 12–17. https://www-jstor-org.yale.idm.oclc.org/stable/26362342.
Charles Osborne for Tiffany & Co., Chocolate Pot, 1879.
1893 poster by Firmin Bouisset.
Now, what you’ve all been waiting for: the chocolate factory! As documented by Abby.
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