Ribart de Chamoust (fl. 1776–83). French architectural writer, author of L'Ordre François trouvé dans la Nature (1776), which contains a curious French Order consisting of three columns set at the points of an equilateral triangular plan (∴) with creepers trailing in spirals around the shafts, capitals similar to those of the Corinthian Order, and a pedestal with three volutes resembling a compressed and inverted Ionic capital. The analogy with a tree (capital = foliage, shaft = trunk, and pedestal with volutes = roots visible above ground) suggests an extension of ideas from Laugier. Ribart's first names may have been Charles-François, who was author of some works on finance, or (more likely) François-Joseph, who was probably the author of Architecture Singulière (1758) and Lettre de M. Ribart (c.1770): this latter Ribart was an ‘Ingénieur’.

Bibliography

Architectural Review, lii/2 (1982), 110–20;
Curl (2002);
Claudia Mernick ;
Paul Nash

Chamoust, Ribart de (fl.1776–83). See ribart de chamoust.