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Motoring scene on the Michelin Building
The former Michelin Building on the Fulham Road now has a collection of shops and restaurants inside - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728358 Ian Nairn has to say of it in Nairn's London (1966): "One of the least likely buildings of an unlikely city. There are glazed tiles all over, and motor tyres on the parapet - though no chubby rubber men - and the Michelin monogram and 'Bibendum' in thumping great letters, and all round the walls at eye level are early motoring scenes with such an air to them that the Fulham Road dissolves and you are back in the 1900s, with clouds of dust and the enraged sputtering of the motor in a deep, quiet countryside. They are a bit like Toulouse Lautrec posters done in tile." This is one of the scenes. Others can be seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728362 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728367 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728370
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 7 Dec 2011
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Motoring scene on the Michelin Building
The former Michelin Building on the Fulham Road now has a collection of shops and restaurants inside - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728358 Ian Nairn has to say of it in Nairn's London (1966): "One of the least likely buildings of an unlikely city. There are glazed tiles all over, and motor tyres on the parapet - though no chubby rubber men - and the Michelin monogram and 'Bibendum' in thumping great letters, and all round the walls at eye level are early motoring scenes with such an air to them that the Fulham Road dissolves and you are back in the 1900s, with clouds of dust and the enraged sputtering of the motor in a deep, quiet countryside. They are a bit like Toulouse Lautrec posters done in tile." This is one of the scenes. Others can be seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728362 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728364 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2728370
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 7 Dec 2011
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Michelin Building, Fulham Road, Chelsea (1)
The Michelin Building was built 1909-1911 to the designs of architect Francoise Espinasse and currently is home to the Bibendum restaurant. More at this http://www.bibendum.co.uk/the-building.html and this http://vintagegarage.co.uk/features/michelin%20tyre%20co.htm
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 19 Aug 2011
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Michelin Building, Fulham Road, Chelsea (2)
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Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 19 Aug 2011
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Michelin Building, Fulham Road, Chelsea (3)
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Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 19 Aug 2011
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Michelin Building, Fulham Road, Chelsea (4)
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Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 19 Aug 2011
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Michelin Building, Fulham Road, Chelsea (5)
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Image One of a series of tiled panels on the exterior of the building celebrating racing successes (both bicycle and motor-car) using Michelin tyres.
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Taken: 19 Aug 2011
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Michelin Building, Fulham Road, Chelsea (6)
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Image Detail of the exuberant decoration that features on the exterior of the building.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 19 Aug 2011
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Chelsea : Michelin Building
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Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 22 May 2019
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Chelsea : Michelin Building
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Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 22 May 2019
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