History of Architecture and Design - Season 1 Episode 11 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris 1925
In television broadcast 11, Tim Benton provides a detailed look at the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts of 1925. Benton offers a close reading of the buildings and designs exhibited to explain many of the paradoxical characteristics of French design during this period and to consider, using contemporary photographs, in what ways the architecture the exhibition's pavilions could be said to reflect avant-garde tendencies.
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Season 1
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An architect at work : Fletcher's Well Ponteland
Universal International Exhibition : Paris 1900
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Hill House
Industrial architecture : AEG and FAGUS factories
Frank Lloyd Wright : the Robie House
R. M. Schindler : The Lovell Beach House
Erich Mendelsohn : the Einstein Tower
Bauhaus at Weimar 1919-1925
Berlin Siedlungen
The Weissenhof Siedlung 1927
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris 1925
Adolf Loos
Le Corbusier : the Villa Savoye
English flats of the thirties
English houses of the Thirties
Hans Scharoun
English furniture : technique and design
Wood or metal : English furniture of the thirties
The London Underground
Moderne and modernistic
The other tradition
Mechanical services in the cinema
The semi-detached house : the suburban style
The housing question
Episode 25