The Palais Lumineux
Mar 31, 2008
A final visit to the Exposition Universelle of 1900 with this photograph of the Palais Lumineux, a piece of period Chinoiserie built in the Champ de Mars close to the Eiffel Tower. I forget where I found this tinted view but Wikipedia has what appears to be the same photograph coloured so as to resemble a night scene.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Louis Bonnier’s exposition dreams
• Exposition Universelle, 1900
• The Palais du Trocadéro
• The Evanescent City
• Winsor McCay’s Hippodrome souvenirs
3 comments or trackbacks
#1 posted by Thombeau
Apr 2nd, 2008
I just made this my desktop wallpaper. I love it!
#2 posted by John
Apr 2nd, 2008
Heh, a shame it’s not there any longer. I keep wondering if the interior was like the room on the back of the elephant in Moulin Rouge. That’s a similar kind of exotica, albeit more Indian.
#3 posted by Thombeau
Apr 2nd, 2008
Believe it or not, that crossed my mind, as well!
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