International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts

The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, an international exhibition of arts and crafts and industrial design, was held in Paris from 28 April to 25 October, 1925. According to her, the Art Deco style is named. On it, the international avant-garde manifested. Featured novelties were, inter alia, Plywood furniture and the living machine by Le Corbusier.

History

Initial plans for such an exhibition fixed the issue date to 1914, but there were numerous delays, not least because of the First World War. The 23.1 -acre showground this in terms of the number of visitors very successful " small world exhibition" was the space between the Esplanade des Invalides and the environment of the Grand Palais and Petit Palais.

Approximately 15,000 exhibitors from 18 countries took part, more than 15 million paying visitors were counted. There were pavilions of the French regions, but also those of foreign countries. Germany was not invited to participate, the United States did not participate voluntarily. Durable architectural relics not left the Art Deco exhibition. The exhibition closed with a net profit of the organizers of about 14.7 million francs.

Architecture

Coined was the exhibition of the temperate ornamental, neo-classical and rationalist -oriented style, which bears her name. Acclaimed examples were the pavilions of the big department stores Printemps and Galeries Lafayette and the Pavillon du Collectionneur ( home of the collector ), built by the architect Pierre Patout with an interior design by Jacques -Émile Ruhlmann. Tourism also Pavilion of Robert Mallet -Stevens and the interior of the temporary theater building (architect Auguste Perret ) were praised by contemporary critics.

As exceptions to the dominant art-deco style of the Soviet pavilion, designed by Konstantin Melnikov, and the Pavilion of the journal L' Esprit Nouveau by Le Corbusier fell together on with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, who became the scandal success. Standardized fittings, stricter waiver of any decor, but works of art from Fernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and Le Corbusier identified this pavilion, to which there was high profile conflicts with the exhibition management (including planning the time being, the " inappropriate" House with a high wall to surround ). Here Le Corbusier presented his vision of urban redevelopment of Paris for car-friendly high-rise city: the Voisin Plan.