La Bataille des couleurs

How the Centre Pompidou got its red, blue, green and yellow pipes, told through drawings, photographs, models and archives.

Between 1971 and 1977 President Georges Pompidou, the architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, the museum’s curators and several artists argued over the building’s colors; gold and blue, brown and even all-yellow schemes came up before each network got its own: red for circulation, blue for air, green for water, yellow for electricity.

A first room tells that story; a second shows tables, lamps, buckets and cables that carried the palette into the interior.

Full details at centrepompidou.fr