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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
A tyre depot of 1911 with Bibendum in stained glass and the walls tiled like a swimming bath.
Art DecoYou can go insideFree
Michelin's first permanent building in Britain, opened on 20 January 1911 and designed not by an architect but by François Espinasse, an engineer from the company's construction department at Clermont-Ferrand, who got it up in five months. It is Art Nouveau tipping into Art Deco, and the decoration is all advertising: three large stained-glass windows of Bibendum, the Michelin Man, taken from the firm's own posters, and tiled panels of early motor races around the walls. Tyres were fitted on the ground floor and the tiling is there because the place had to be hosed down. Terence Conran and Paul Hamlyn converted it in 1987; it is now a restaurant and shops, and you can walk in and look up.
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