Anciens entrepôts Dubonnet

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History

Witness to the economic activity of Sète. Warehouses designed by the architectural agency Carlier in the early 20th century. A large gateway gives access to the site, opening onto a vast courtyard intended for deliveries. The installations are distributed on each side, with a desire for homogeneity in decoration. On the west side, a series of four long hangars, parallel to the quay, house alignments of reinforced concrete vats for wines intended for aperitifs. On the east side are a vast hall and a small two-storey building (laboratory for the analysis of musts and preparation of aperitifs; offices on the ground floor; staff accommodation on the upper floor). The hall is covered with a riveted metal roof structure, lit by a huge square roof lantern. It is of centred plan with two large perpendicular aisles crossing and dividing the space into four sections, and a peripheral aisle serving alignments of vats. In the eastern part of the enclosure, four rows of hangars perpendicular to the quay also served as warehouses.