, the Grand Palais is part of the 'Banks of the Seine' World Heritage site. It was built for the Paris world’s fair of 1900: the Exposition Universelle. Following an architectural competition, the building [...] The interiors were an exercise in Art Nouveau. The exposition site covered 112 hectares in central Paris and included specialist exhibitions, national pavilions and the Eiffel Tower. The Grand Palais was
Hangar Y in the Forêt de Meudon near Paris was constructed between 1879 and 1884 for the dirigible La France by Charles Renard (1847-1905) and Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850-1935), and is reckoned the first [...] first of its kind in the world. Its metal doors were designed by Henri de Dion (1828-78) for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. The hangar is 70m long, 24 m wide and 20m high. It formed part of a
of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised in high-quality fabrics for the fashion industry of Paris. When he built his house he departed from traditional bourgeois villa architecture and chose the French
acquired in poor condition, such as the Renault pickup dating from 1914 that Lundkvist brought from Paris and restored himself. An additional store contains vehicles that are still awaiting restoration.
Monnaie de Paris is the oldest continuing institution in France, created in the year 864 as a royal mint. Coins were made initially with hand-stamps, then from the 17th century with screw presses. The
In 1938, Ford opened a new purpose-built factory at Poissy, less than 20 km from Paris. Over the following eighty years, the area became renowned for its car industry: manufacturers with factories there
Cité de la Mer in 2002. It was built on the harbourside in 1933 for rail passengers arriving from Paris to board directly onto transatlantic liners. It also provided offices for shipping companies and a
The Sewer Museum in Paris offers visitors the chance to discover ‘the city below the city’. Tours have been offered since the mid-19 th century of the sewers of the French capital. Parisian sanitation
heritage of the car makers DS, Peugeot and Citroën. It is situated near Le Bourget airport north of Paris in a modern building of 6,500 m² – appropriately on the Boulevard André Citroën, which is named after
photographs and examples of costumes made from silk and fabrics designed for the fashion houses of Paris. Part of the museum is devoted to the history of the Charlieu corporation of weavers, which is now
years, a 300-ton barge would bring charcoal to fuel the kilns and take away the products, mainly to Paris. A large workshop built of timber with a tile roof has long benches beneath windows for working on
several Swiss lines. Over 20 passenger coaches are maintained; one by Chevalier, Chailus and Son in Paris for the Lausanne-Bercher railway dates from as early as 1865. There are also many examples of goods
over the world. The area manufactured weapons for the French Revolution, pipelines for Madrid and Paris, and components for building the Eiffel Tower. Visitors can find out how this came about in the e
works in marble: mundane, ecclesiastical, funerary and everyday objects, clay models and plaster-of-Paris copies, as well as quarrying, cutting and carving tools, mechanical equipment, archival material and
2005, an exclusive boutique has been opened in Brussels and further boutiques are being planned in Paris, New York and Tokyo. If that´s not success, what is?!
