Salon Hang
サロン掛け / 1667–19th century / Layout / Exhibition Design
The Paris Salon's way of stacking paintings frame to frame from floor to ceiling. Height announced a work's rank, and looking became competition and society. It is the exact opposite of the white cube, and its origin.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Stacked floor to ceiling
- Crowded frames
- Rank by position
- The whole wall used
Best used for
- Making the sheer number of works in a collection the attraction
- Composing a wall of many small frames in a home or shop as one field
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Keep titles off the wall, using numbers and an entrance key plan
- Composition
- Principal works at viewing height, tilted and packed tighter as they rise
- Material
- Gold frames on a deep colored wall, rank carried by frame width
- Caution
- Failing to check the upper works from the angle a visitor looks up produces a wall where reflection and foreshortening hide everything.
- Further study
- the Paris Salon / hanging 'on the line' / the Salon des Refusés, 1863
Related entries
- White Cube (ホワイトキューブ)Same Exhibition Design lineage.Compare Salon Hang and White Cube
- Wunderkammer (驚異の部屋)Same Exhibition Design lineage.Compare Salon Hang and Wunderkammer
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