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- 23 x 28.5 cm
- 192 pages
- 180 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8309-8
- Text in French only
For nearly sixty years, from 1909 to 1968, the architect André Granet (1881-1974), son-in-law of Gustave Eiffel, conceived the decorations for the automobile and aviation exhibitions held at the Grand Palais, then the Porte de Versailles. These Salons were a Parisian event awaited by millions of visitors dazzled by the gleaming mechanics as well as the surprising displays and the magic of the illuminations, designed by André Granet. A follower of a certain eclecticism, then a fervent supporter of Art Deco, André Granet renewed the general appearance of the decorative ensemble each year through increasingly sophisticated uses of light. When he installed a two-hundred-meter-long ceiling light, lit by seven kilometers of fluorescent tubes, he declared: “Paris cannot tolerate mediocrity!” Presenting the ephemeral decorations of the interwar period, this book is produced from a collection of period photos, posters, and original unpublished drawings preserved in the 20th century architecture archives of the French Institute of Architecture.