Episode 10 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 3
08/21/22 • 57 min
"I know it when I see it”
Final in a 3-part series on the 1925 Paris exposition and the Art Deco style. In this episode I explore the origins of the Art Deco style, especially its roots in avant-garde art. Plus the role of the forgotten giant of fashion Paul Poiret in packaging the avant-garde for the mass market.
To explore future:
- High-level overview of avant-garde art
- Article on Antonio Sant'Ella 1910 Futurist building designs
- Unesco site, Centennial Hall, 1913, Wroclaw
Video of Grosse Schauspielhaus , 1919 Berlin - Article on 1914 Deutsche Werkbund exhibition, Cologne
- Colour video reconstruction of the Glass Pavilion, 1914 Deutsche Werkbund expo
- Article on Paul Poiret
- Article on Corbusier's Pavillion de l"esprit Nouveau, 1925
- World Heritage site on Corbusier's Cité Frugès, 1924
Email feedback and suggestions to [email protected]
Photo credit: Ambassador study-library, designed by Pierre Chareau, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
"I know it when I see it”
Final in a 3-part series on the 1925 Paris exposition and the Art Deco style. In this episode I explore the origins of the Art Deco style, especially its roots in avant-garde art. Plus the role of the forgotten giant of fashion Paul Poiret in packaging the avant-garde for the mass market.
To explore future:
- High-level overview of avant-garde art
- Article on Antonio Sant'Ella 1910 Futurist building designs
- Unesco site, Centennial Hall, 1913, Wroclaw
Video of Grosse Schauspielhaus , 1919 Berlin - Article on 1914 Deutsche Werkbund exhibition, Cologne
- Colour video reconstruction of the Glass Pavilion, 1914 Deutsche Werkbund expo
- Article on Paul Poiret
- Article on Corbusier's Pavillion de l"esprit Nouveau, 1925
- World Heritage site on Corbusier's Cité Frugès, 1924
Email feedback and suggestions to [email protected]
Photo credit: Ambassador study-library, designed by Pierre Chareau, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
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Episode 9 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 2
"The first impression of the Exhibition is startling. Passing through the silver obelisk-like towers of the Port d’Honneur, one comes at once upon a cubist dream city, or the projection of a possible city in Mars, arisen overnight in the heart of Paris. "
Second in a 3-part series on the 1925 Paris exposition, the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Moderne", that sparked a world-wide explosion of the glamorous and much-loved Art Deco style. In this episode I discuss how Paris battled to regain its position as style leader of the Western world against the challenge of foreign innovators such as the Deutsche Werkbund, culminating in the 1925 Paris Exposition.
To explore further:
- Article on the Thonet Number 14 chair
- Article on the Deutsche Werkbund
- Article on Peter Brehens, one of the founders of the Werkbund
- Article on the AEG Turbine Hall, one the pioneers of modern factory design
- Article of the 1910 Salon d'Automne
- More photos of the Deutsche Werkbund exhibits at the 1910 Salon d'Automne
- Jean Metzinger's Cubist painting Nu a la cheminee
- Comprehensive article by Arthur Chandler on the 1925 Paris Exhibition
- Photos of the 1925 Paris Exhibition
- Film "Paris a Cinq Jours", ("Paris in 5 Days"), silent comedy from 1925. Contains actual footage of the 195 Paris expo at 40.49 minute mark
Email feedback and suggestions to [email protected]
Photo credit: Thonet Number 14 Chair, thonet.com.au/products/no-14-vienna/
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Episode 11 - Streamline moderne, Part 1
“The airplane is the symbol of the new age . A new state of modern conscience. A new plastic vision. A new aesthetic. "
Welcome back to the second season of Talking Modernism, and the first of a 2-part series on Streamline Moderne, the style that is so evocative of Depression era America. In this episode I'll be talking about the glamorous world of train travel in the 1930s, and the ground-breaking Pioneer Zephyr, the first of the streamliner trains.
To explore further :
- Wikipedia on Pioneer Zephyr
- Book Shafer& Welsh, "Streamliners - History of a Railroad Icon", MBI Publishing, 1997
- Article on the economics of rail travel in America
- Article on railway dining
- Wikipedia on the Shienenzeppelin
- Article on the Fliegender Hamburger train
- Film of the 1938 20th Century Limited: the most beautiful train ever made?
- Photos of Mossehaus by Erich Mendelsohn
- Article on the Universum Cinema, also by Mendelsohn
- PDF copy of Aircraft by Le Corbusier, 1935
- 1934 film The Silver Streak
Talking Modernism - Episode 10 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 3
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Episode 10 - The 1025 Paris Expo, Part 3
Welcome! To the tenth episode in the series “Talking Modernism”, the podcast about the 1920s and 30s, and how our grandparents and great-grandparents changed the world. I am your host Michael Hauptman.
This is 3rd and epic final episode where I talk about about the 1925 Paris Expo that announced to the world. the style we know as Art Deco . I concluded the last episode with a triumphant Paris at the expo’s opening. In thi
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