Palace of the People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936 - Softcover

Piggott, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299200949 ISBN 13: 9780299200947

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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Copublished with C. Hurst and Co., London

Wisconsin edition for sale only in North and South America, U.S. dependencies, and the Philippines

About the Author

Jan R. Piggott is Keeper of Archives at Dulwich College in London, where he taught for thirty years and was head of English.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0299200949
• ISBN 13: 9780299200947
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256