Guide d'utilisation Eclairage Public Paris: Street Light and Urban Furniture Technical Manual (Direction de la Voirie, 1984, Aymeric Zublena Provenance / Ownership signature Kahler)

Rare vintage City of Paris street lighting manual, the working reference the city roads department issued to Aymeric Zublena, the renowned French architect of the Stade de France & the Hopital Europeen Georges-Pompidou, in July 1984. Transmittal sheet bound at the preliminary leaf on Mairie Annexe du 5e Arrondissement letterhead, 21 Place du Pantheon, from Chief Engineer Le Loc'h of the southern lighting & signalling division, at the request of M. Dagand, w/ a directive to return the document after project review. Signature of notable American Architectn & Designer David Kahler. A period xerographic municipal reference compiled by the Direction de la Voirie, Ville de Paris, 1984: dimensioned scale elevations & cross-sections of Parisian street lighting & street furniture w/ manufacturer codes, mounting heights & photometric data, covering Fut T candelabres, Bouquet Vendome & Bouquet Opera fixtures, Trafic TR 1 luminaires & Boule Givree diametre 500 globes, w/ black-and-white photographic plates of installations along Boulevard Haussmann & rue Armand Moisant. The city's current lighting catalogue documents today's fixtures; this records the approved state of 1984, the reference point for restoring or reproducing Paris lighting of the period. French Language Edition. Very Good: oblong comb-bound manual, paperback, cream heavy paper covers w/ black printed title Paris Street Light, clear acetate overlay, light even toning & minor shelf rubbing to edges; yellow-tan plastic comb spine complete & unbroken. Unmarked, interior technical leaves clean, light toning to outer page edges. 12.0x9.0 in. (Oblong Quarto). Ships in a box, insured, signature required upon receipt. Ships in box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: French Language Edition. Guide d'utilisation Eclairage Public Paris, titled Paris Street Light on its cover, is the 1984 municipal urban lighting catalogue and street furniture engineering folio of the City of Paris. Compiled by the Direction de la Voirie, Service technique des Etudes, Section Eclairage et Exploitation, it sets out the technical specifications, photometric criteria, and aesthetic standards governing the candelabras and luminaires installed across Parisian boulevards, plazas, and pedestrian thoroughfares. The volume carries scale schematics, dimensional elevation drawings, and equipment data sheets alongside black-and-white photographic plates of installations along Boulevard Haussmann and rue Armand Moisant. The technical breakdowns cover both the classic cast-iron designs, among them the Bouquet Vendome and Bouquet Opera fixtures, and late-century luminaires including the Trafic TR 1 and the Clarel Boule Givree globes. A transmittal slip on Mairie Annexe du 5e Arrondissement letterhead, dated July 1984, documents the passage of this working guide from the municipal chief engineer to Aymeric Zublena, the architect who won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1967 and later designed the Stade de France and the Hopital Europeen Georges-Pompidou, and who served as President of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. The exchange records the consultation between Paris city engineers and the architects working on the modern French urban landscape. Produced as an internal municipal document rather than for public sale, the guide is a primary source for late twentieth-century French civic architecture and for the lighting that gives the City of Light its name.…