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Most beautiful stable in the world Chantilly Grand Stables

06/16/201304/30/2019 by Viola

Most beautiful stable in the world Chantilly Grand Stables
French Prince Louis-Henri de Bourbon was so convinced he’d be reincarnated as a horse, that he built the most beautiful, worthy of his rank stable in the world. Thus he left France one of the eighteenth century’s architectural masterpieces. Now Aga Khan IV (full name His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV), billionaire and spiritual leader to the world’s Nizari Ismaili Muslims, is investing $3 million to bring it back to its former glory. The new Museum of the Horse in Chantilly, has been inaugurated June 15th 2013, it aims to be both an art museum and an ethnographic one. It will be informative and educational, and is designed to be attractive to a very wide public both of children and adults. The stables at Chantilly are not only a spectacular feat of architecture, they’re also home to a famous collection of equine artworks and the rarest ponies on the planet.

The collections will be exposed in 15 contiguous rooms and will include the following themes: the evolution of the horse and breeds of horses worldwide; technical progress in equine equipment and the use of horse power; the horse’s role in relation to prestige, to war and to hunting. Horse sports and games, and especially racing which put Chantilly on the map since 1834, will also occupy three rooms. A large room will be dedicated to the horse in art, with works by such great artists as Durer, Mantegna, Rubens, Poussin, Oudry, Gericault, Dufy, etc. The last two rooms will show an exceptional ensemble of carousel horses, and will be followed by a cafe where visitors will find refreshments. In the Western part of the Great Stables, two of the most important French historical carriages will be on show, recently restored: the Imperial ladies’ brougham and the Berlin of the duc de Conde.

The different artworks exhibited will enable both adults and children to understand the extent to which the horse was, and still is, involved with man, right since the beginning of time. Particular care is given to children so the museum becomes a destination for families and friends of the horse – often called man’s noblest conquest.

“I had done this sort of work in the developing world, restoring historic sites, but never here,” said the Aga Khan (center), who also has an office in Chantilly. The $3.3 million makeover was half funded by the renowned horse owner, with the remaining amount covered by the French Ministry of Culture, the region of Picardy and the Institute de France.

At more than 180 meters long, roughly the same size as two soccer fields, the stables at Chantilly are not only a spectacular feat of architecture, they’re also home to a famous collection of equine artworks and the rarest ponies on the planet.

Built almost 300 years ago, in 1719, the Grand Stables was one of the most breathtaking buildings in the world, housing a whopping 250 horses and 300 hunting dogs on the manicured lawns and lakes of the opulent Chantilly Estate.

Charming animals horses are worth building for them museums, palaces, creating art works – paintings, sculpture, photography. Here are the beautiful photographs of Wojtek Kwiatkowski, Polish photographer, in 1954 in Warsaw. As a student, he worked as a buster. At the present time – one of the foremost experts on Arab horses. Became interested in photography four years ago, when he first bought a professional digital camera: