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Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace
Author: Patrick Beaver
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2001-10-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781860771989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park to house the treasures of the world for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It became a microcosm of Victorian life, industry and leisure, reflecting every aspect of its age. Designed by Joseph Paxton as a temporary structure its success meant that when it closed it was moved to Sydenham and rebuilt. "... widely regarded as the most authoritative book written about the history of the famous glass Crystal Palace ... " Kentish Times
Crystal Palace
Author: John McKean
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780714829258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
History and Description of the Crystal Palace and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851
History and Description of the Crystal Palace
Author: John Tallis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-05-19
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1108026702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tallis' book, published in 1852, gives a vibrant account of the Great Exhibition, a key event of the Victorian period.
Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851
Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851
Palace of the People
Author: Jan Piggott
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780299200947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace originally graced London's Hyde Park with Joseph Paxton's remarkable geometric design and groundbreaking use of glass elements, prefiguring the modern movement in architecture. After the exhibition a group of bankers, railway directors, and men of influence moved the structure to a new site in south London, rebuilt it to an even grander scale, and set about its promotion as a "palace for the multitude." Here were exhibitions, concerts, and spectaculars to fill a splendid day out for Londoners of all classes and interests. Filled with plaster casts of great art treasures, life-sized models of dinosaurs, waterworks, and gardens, the Crystal Palace became a center of both education and entertainment from the Victorian era through its destruction by fire in1936. Copublished with C. Hurst & Co., London Wisconsin edition for sale only in North and South America, U.S. territories and dependencies, and the Philippines.
The Finest Building in America
Author: Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0190681217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Built in 1853 in New York's Bryant Park and immediately pronounced the most beautiful structure in America, the Crystal Palace was intended not simply to emulate but rival the famous Victorian landmark in London's Hyde Park. As with its English counterpart, however, its beauty was ephemeral. It caught fire, and on October 5, 1858, "great waves of lurid light" overtook spectators and those rushing to save it. Within thirty minutes, the beloved dome was nothing but a heap of smoldering debris. In his latest book, Edwin G. Burrows, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History and co-author of GOTHAM: A History of New York to 1898, offers a memorable and elegiac look at the Crystal Palace. While it didn't match in dimension Robert Paxton's London original--the scale of which was truly colossal--the New York version became a beloved landmark almost from the instant of its creation. Centerpiece of the 1853 World's Fair, it was home to numerous exhibitions and became a showplace for displaying the growing industrial might of the nation. Walt Whitman rhapsodized about it as "Earth's modern wonder, History's Seven outstripping." Its sudden loss provoked intense mourning-matched only perhaps by the razing of the old Penn Station a century later-and then gradually it slipped from memory. The Finest Building in America will evoke the Crystal Palace's life and times, replete with beautiful period images. The first book-length account of the building's short but glorious life, Burrows book aims to restore it in the minds and hearts of New Yorkers and New York aficionados and fans everywhere"--
