A few weeks ago we talked about Matthias Jung‘s surreal floating architecture.
Beautiful but anonymous buildings that, challenging the force of gravity, float in the sky on solitary lands.

What French artist Laurent Chéhère, with his Maisons Volantes project, tells us is an old Paris that frees itself from its roots and, in the same way, flies free in cloudy or coloured skies.
His houses are inspired by the aesthetics of Jules Verne, Albert Robida, Moebius, Hayao Miyazaki, William Klein, Wim Wenders, Federico Fellini, Serge Gainsbourg, Marcel Carné and Jean Cocteau, but also by the poor and cosmopolitan neighborhood of Paris, where the artist lives.

The images are photomontage of hundreds of different elements, roofs, windows, gutters, fireplaces, people, graffiti and skies, captured and assembled later as if they were pieces of a big puzzle.
His stories are full of ingredients from the comedy, poetry and drama, all easy to see after carefully watching her collages.

The author offers a few keys to discover them all, but her flying houses remain open to the free interpretation of the viewer.