A crush on architecture: le linteau


window expansion, lintel, façade, bouganvillea www.french-word-a-day.com (c) Kristin Espinasse
Beneath the façade, you can see what this 19th centurymas is made of. When the demolition workers opened the stone wall sand came trickling out, like fallen seconds in an hourglass. Rubbing laterre sableuse between our hands, Jean-Marc and I marveled at the building materials of yesteryear.


le linteau (lun-tow)


: lintel, girder


plural: linteaux


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Published on October 18, 2013 02:38
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