Palace of the People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936

ISBN-13: 9780299200947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 230 str.

J. R. Piggott

Opis

Built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace originally graced London s Hyde Park with Joseph Paxton s remarkable geometric design and groundbreaking use of glass elements, prefiguring the modern movement in architecture. After the exhibition a group of bankers, railway directors, and men of influence moved the structure to a new site in south London, rebuilt it to an even grander scale, and set about its promotion as a "palace for the multitude." Here were exhibitions, concerts, and spectaculars to fill a splendid day out for Londoners of all classes and interests. Filled with plaster casts of great art treasures, life-sized models of dinosaurs, waterworks, and gardens, the Crystal Palace became a center of both education and entertainment from the Victorian era through its destruction by fire in1936.
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