Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Grand Palais

Preferred Title:	Grand Palais
Alternate Title:	Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées
Image View:	Grand Palais, detail
Creator:	Charles Louis Girault (French architect, 1851-1932); Henri Deglane (French architect, 1855-1921)
Location:	site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:	8th arrondissement; 3, avenue du Général-Eisenhower
GPS:	+48.866161+2.312553
Date:	1897-1900 (creation)
Cultural Context:	French
Style Period:	Beaux-Arts; Nineteenth century; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:	exhibition building
Work Type 2:	sculpture (visual work)
Work Type 3:	museum
Classification:	architecture
Material:	stone; cast iron; glass
Technique:	carving (processes); construction (assembling); metalworking
Measurements:	240 m (length, main hall)
Subjects:	architecture; Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France); world's fairs; historic quotation; temporary exhibits buildings
Description:	Girault had done temporary structures for Exposition Universelle, Paris, of 1889 and of 1900. He also erected two structures that were intended to outlast the 1900 exhibition: the Petit Palais, which was entirely his own work, and the Grand Palais, of which he was principal architect, working in partnership with Henri-Adolphe-Auguste Deglane, Albert Louvet (1860-1936) and Albert-Théophile-Félix Thomas (1847-1907). The two buildings flank the broad Avenue Alexandre III, just off the Avenue des Champs-Elysées. The façades are interpretations of 18th-century French architecture. Behind exterior façades built entirely of stone, the Grand Palais is in fact one great iron-framed and glass hall (almost 240 metres long). Its plain interior décor centres on a grand staircase leading to the upper galleries. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection:	Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:	1A2-F-P-PG-A4
Rights:	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.