A sample of Erik's talent is shown in Leroux's novel with the
construction in Mazanderan Palace of the Torture Chamber.
With octogonal shape (geometric form favourite by Arabian
culture), it was covered by mirrors which set against
themselves created an effect called "mise en abyme" (French
expression) which means "multiplication of an image in an
infinite way".
Erik constructed it to entertainment of the little Sultana and he
decorated it with jungle motives, even sounds of wild animals,
birds, etc. This decoration could also change into a desert.
With any that two adornments, when the special mechanism of
suffocated heat was activated, the victim who was there could
finally think in suicide, and that's why Erik
satisfying little Sultana's desires, had setting a genuine tree
with a Punjab Lazzo hanging on it.
That way, victim was induced to suicide and Sultana's
conscience, in her appreciation,
was free of the fact that she hadn't put to death to anybody
directly.
Probably, Jospeh Buquet's death, in Leroux's book, was that
way too...
When Erik went to Paris, he constructed another Torture
Chamber in his domains of the Opera so he could be
protected of intruders who pretended to enter in his secret
world.
Something very similar to Torture Chamber can be found in
Grevin Museum of Paris denominated as "Palais de Mirages" :
This uniquepresentation, unrivalled worldwide, was created
specially by Eugène Hénard for the Exposition Universelle in
1900. It went to the Grevin Museum in 1906 and was entirely
rebuilt in 2006.
Its hexagonal space, lined with mirrors from floor to ceiling
and decorated with architectural motifs, goes through
successive pivot-driven transformations. The constantly
changes of scenery seems to be a giant kaleidoscope
transporting spectators to a bewitching Hindu Temple,
through a menacing jungle, or the Palace of Thousand and
One nights..
construction in Mazanderan Palace of the Torture Chamber.
With octogonal shape (geometric form favourite by Arabian
culture), it was covered by mirrors which set against
themselves created an effect called "mise en abyme" (French
expression) which means "multiplication of an image in an
infinite way".
Erik constructed it to entertainment of the little Sultana and he
decorated it with jungle motives, even sounds of wild animals,
birds, etc. This decoration could also change into a desert.
With any that two adornments, when the special mechanism of
suffocated heat was activated, the victim who was there could
finally think in suicide, and that's why Erik
satisfying little Sultana's desires, had setting a genuine tree
with a Punjab Lazzo hanging on it.
That way, victim was induced to suicide and Sultana's
conscience, in her appreciation,
was free of the fact that she hadn't put to death to anybody
directly.
Probably, Jospeh Buquet's death, in Leroux's book, was that
way too...
When Erik went to Paris, he constructed another Torture
Chamber in his domains of the Opera so he could be
protected of intruders who pretended to enter in his secret
world.
Something very similar to Torture Chamber can be found in
Grevin Museum of Paris denominated as "Palais de Mirages" :
This uniquepresentation, unrivalled worldwide, was created
specially by Eugène Hénard for the Exposition Universelle in
1900. It went to the Grevin Museum in 1906 and was entirely
rebuilt in 2006.
Its hexagonal space, lined with mirrors from floor to ceiling
and decorated with architectural motifs, goes through
successive pivot-driven transformations. The constantly
changes of scenery seems to be a giant kaleidoscope
transporting spectators to a bewitching Hindu Temple,
through a menacing jungle, or the Palace of Thousand and
One nights..
Most of next photos were taken by me in one of my trips to Paris .
Don't take them without my permission:
Don't take them without my permission:
Music from the show at Grevin Museum.
1889, Universal Exposition, Paris.