Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern
| World Exhibition Paris 1925 Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern |
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| General | |
| Exhibition space | 23.1 ha |
| new hits | Plywood furniture , living machine by Le Corbusier |
| Number of visitors | 15 million |
| BIE recognition | No |
| participation | |
| countries | 18th |
| Exhibitors | 15,000 |
| Place of issue | |
| place | Paris |
| terrain |
Esplanade des Invalides , Avenue Alexandre III, Pont Alexandre III Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 49 ″ N , 2 ° 18 ′ 49 ″ E
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| calendar | |
| opening | April 28, 1925 |
| closure | October 25, 1925 |
| Chronological order | |
| predecessor | San Francisco 1915 |
| successor | Barcelona 1929 |
The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes ( German International Exhibition for Modern Decorative Arts and Crafts ), a world exhibition of the arts and crafts and industrial design, took place in Paris from April 28 to October 25, 1925. The Art Deco style is named after her. The international avant-garde also manifested itself on it. Introduced innovations were u. a. Plywood furniture and the living machine by Le Corbusier .
history
Initial plans for such an exhibition fixed the exhibition date for 1914, but there were several postponements, not least due to the First World War . The 23.1 hectare exhibition area of this "small world exhibition ", which was very successful in terms of visitor numbers, was the space between the Esplanade des Invalides and the surroundings of the Grand Palais and Petit Palais .
Around 15,000 exhibitors from 18 countries took part, and more than 15 million paying visitors were counted. There were pavilions from the French regions, but also from foreign countries. Germany was not invited to participate, the USA did not participate of their own accord. The Art Deco exhibition did not leave any lasting architectural relics. The exhibition closed with a net profit for the organizers of around 14.7 million francs.
architecture
The exhibition was characterized by the moderately ornamental, neoclassical and rationalistic style that bears her name. Well-known examples were the pavilions of the large Printemps and Galeries Lafayette department stores and the Pavillon du Collectionneur (collector's house), a work by the architect Pierre Patout with an interior design by Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann . The tourism pavilion by Robert Mallet-Stevens and the interior of the temporary theater building (architect Auguste Perret ) were also praised by contemporary critics.
Exceptions to the dominant Art Deco style were the Soviet pavilion, designed by Konstantin Melnikow , and the pavilion of the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau by Le Corbusier together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret , which became a scandalous success. Standardized furnishings, strict abandonment of any decoration, but works of art by Fernand Léger , Amédée Ozenfant , Juan Gris , Pablo Picasso and Le Corbusier characterized this pavilion, about which there were high-profile conflicts with the exhibition management (among other things, they temporarily planned the "unsuitable" House surrounded by a high wall). Here Le Corbusier also presented his urban planning vision of converting Paris into a high-rise city suitable for cars: the Voisin plan .
Naming for the Art Deco
The title of the exhibition Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern was later adopted after a new edition of the exhibition as a retrospective under the title Les Années 25 for the style predominantly shown there: "Art Deco". Until then, terms such as "Style Moderne", French style and "Style 25" were in use. The name "Art Deco" first appeared in 1966 as the title of an article by Hilary Gelson in The Times newspaper , and shortly thereafter it was used in the title of a book by Osbert Lancaster . Through the book Art Deco by Bevis Hillier , the term was fully established in the English-speaking world in 1968 and was able to assert itself against "Jazz Age" and "Modern Style".
Picture gallery
Poster of the 1925 World's Fair
Eiffel Tower during the 1925 World's Fair with neon advertising by André Citroën
Interior of the Dutch pavilion, designer JF Staal
Soviet Pavilion by Konstantin Melnikow
Polish pavilion
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supporting documents
- ↑ a b Sil or fashion? In: Norbert Wolf : Art Deco. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2013; P. 22. ISBN 978-3-7913-4763-9 .
literature
- Erik Mattie: World's Fair . Belser, 1998, ISBN 3-7630-2358-5 .
- World's Fair magazine, Volume VIII, No. 3/1988
