L’ornement des autres modernes. Le décor de la vie à l’Exposition de 1925
This article sets out to help understand the theoretical positions of the architects involved, from the 1910s, in the collective project for the exhibition which finally took place in 1925. Charles Plumet, Henri-Marcel Magne and Louis Bonnier, respectively head architect, technical adviser and const...
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| Language: | fra |
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Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
2025-04-01
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| Series: | In Situ |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/44230 |
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| Summary: | This article sets out to help understand the theoretical positions of the architects involved, from the 1910s, in the collective project for the exhibition which finally took place in 1925. Charles Plumet, Henri-Marcel Magne and Louis Bonnier, respectively head architect, technical adviser and construction manager for the exhibition, hoped to encourage cooperation between art and techniques in order to create the aesthetic framework of contemporary life. The first volumes of the official report on the exhibition express their collective thinking which allows us to understand the urban, architectural and decorative intentions of the Cour des métiers, the crafts courtyard, and of the galleries for the French and foreign furniture ensembles, with their four crowning towers. This Cour des métiers, seen as the intellectual heart of the exhibition, was appreciated by the critics of the time, but has attracted only little subsequent attention from historians. But it represents the expression of a programme of synthesis between town planning, architecture and decoration appropriate for the age of reinforced concrete and the industrialisation of crafts. It set out to conjugate, on the one hand, a desire for truth implying a reasoned use of ornament and, on the other hand, an engagement in favour of a renaissance of arts and crafts, adapted to industrial conditions of production. Refusing to see any division between the respective aims of art and utility, these ‘other’ modernists affirmed their ambition for an aesthetic approach to the techniques of everyday life. |
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| ISSN: | 1630-7305 |