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Article: Nestle confection. (Nestle France's new headquarters)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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The iron and brick chocolate factory at Noisiel is one of the iconic buildings of the Industrial Revolution. It was the core of a complex of bold industrial buildings; now the whole has been transformed into Nestle's headquarters with elegance, speed and economy.
Nestle France's prestigious new headquarters has been created by converting the celebrated nineteenth-century Menier chocolate factory at Noisiel in the fast expanding new town of Marne-la-Vallee east of Paris. The founder of the chocolate-making dynasty, the Parisian pharmacist Jean Antoine Brutus Menier, acquired the Noisiel site in 1825, to install grinding works for his medicinal powders. He used ground ...
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