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Session 19: The 1851 Exhibition, image, image - Coggle Diagram
Session 19: The 1851 Exhibition
Cristal Palace
Materials
5,600 m2 of timber
293,000 panes of glass
4,500 tons of iron
measurements
124 m wide
33 m high
563 m long
Hyde Park, London
Technology
8 months, 2000 men
efficiency, rapidness and assembly
Paxton: problem-solver, conventional buildings and embodied the spirit of British innovation
many different urban areas
New aspects
No historical antecedent
Time travelling spaceship
Design into every aspect of life
Link with IKEA or malls
socially
all classes in the same place
concerned
two genders in the same place
public toilets
Objects
100,000 objects
15,000 contributors
coming from different cultures
they took a lot of time to arrive
divided into different types of objects
furniture department
fine arts
Sculptures
Different cultures
Woodwork
Innovations
Telescope
Spinning library
Barrometer
Image Telegraph
Vertical printing machine
Exoticism
Department of India
gold and big
ornaments
Koh-i-Noor diamond
after this, every exhibition made their diamond bigger
"Mountain of Light"
largest known
Visitors
entry was ticketed
started being expensive but the price went down for them to have more potential costumers
40,000 daily
the place to go
profit: 12-18 million euros
Opening
Queen Victoria
1st may 1851
work day
controversy
Legacy
shape people's taste and inspired new exhibitions
free trade
normalise the machines
fetishism of commodity
Paris (inspiration)
Galleries des machines (1889)
Tour-Eiffel
Grands Magasins
a modell to sell commodities
department stores
luxury good for bourgeoisie from raw materials but lost quality
did not depend on the season
open the whole year
