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Palace
of the People The first definitive history of an icon
of London's Victorian Age 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 spectacles 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 in 1936. Copublished with C. Hurst & Co., London |
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