Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts

Book Covers: Paris

A Paris guide book from 1970. Cover by Stellan Kristenson. From today's uploads to my Flickr page.
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Vintage: Paris en ballon etc

Excursions aériennes. Paris en ballon. Vue Prise du Pavillon Marsan (Château des Tuileries) by Jules Arnout, 1846

"This month I was directed to an excellent site, the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya in Spain..."
- BibliOdyssey: "Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya"


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Vintage postcard: World exposition 1937

An interesting postcard from the world exposition - Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne - in Paris 1937. The Nazi-German pavilion on the left placed directly across the Stalin-Soviet pavilion on the right. Talk about premonition of things to come.




Uploaded to Vintage photographs by h rust

The German pavilion was designed by Albert Speer (and sculptor Josef Thorak) and the Soviet pavilion by Boris Mihailovich Iofan (and sculptor Vera Mukhina). Need I say they both were awarded the gold medal?

Please go here for more postcards and photos from the exposition!


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