Crès and Co. - Expo Paris 1925

Architect(s) : Jean Hiriart, Georges Triboul, Georges Beau

The Crès bookshop, in order to present us with books, has erected a monument whose walls are books seen from behind and open to the inside.

A true artist feels the desire to defy logic, if only to produce one of those effects of surprise which are the romantic interest of a human work.

By instinct, by tact, he forks because he senses that the road is too straight and boring.

©L'Illustration - 1925