{"id":12213,"date":"2012-10-20T02:14:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T01:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2012-10-20T02:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T01:14:43","slug":"balloons-in-the-grand-palais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/20\/balloons-in-the-grand-palais\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons in the Grand Palais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doobybrain.com\/2011\/01\/31\/hot-air-balloons-by-leon-gimpel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/balloons1.jpg\" alt=\"balloons1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Autochrome by L\u00e9on Gimpel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris is one of the few sites remaining from the\u00a0Exposition Universelle of 1900 (see yesterday&#8217;s post), and is still in use today as a venue for art exhibits, fashion shows and the like. The huge and graceful canopy ceiling makes it a far better venue for art events than the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, London, which suffers from being narrow, lightless and bisected by a concrete walkway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/palaisposter.jpg\" alt=\"palaisposter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nine years after the Exposition the first Paris Air Show was held at the Grand Palais giving us these photos of the place filled with a variety of balloons and a blimp. I&#8217;m wondering now whether you could fit an entire Zeppelin inside the nave (probably not), although even if it fit there&#8217;d be no way to get it inside without demolishing a wall.<\/p>\n<p>The current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandpalais.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Palais site<\/a> has a section devoted to the history of the building which includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandpalais.fr\/en\/The-building\/History\/The-events-staged-in-the-Grand-Palais\/Youth-and-sports\/p-588-lg1-Horse-shows-1901-1957-.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this surprising photo<\/a> from 1937 showing the Beaux Arts structure covered in a Deco-style disguise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/balloons2.jpg\" alt=\"balloons2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/balloons3.jpg\" alt=\"balloons3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Salon_de_locomotion_aerienne_1909_Grand_Palais_Paris.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/balloons4.jpg\" alt=\"balloons4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/balloons5.jpg\" alt=\"balloons5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/01\/paris-iii-le-grande-repertoire-machines-de-spectacle\/\">Paris III: Le Grande R\u00e9pertoire\u2013Machines de Spectacle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autochrome by L\u00e9on Gimpel. The Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris is one of the few sites remaining from the\u00a0Exposition Universelle of 1900 (see yesterday&#8217;s post), and is still in use today as a venue for art exhibits, fashion shows and the like. The huge and graceful canopy ceiling makes it a far better venue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/20\/balloons-in-the-grand-palais\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balloons in the Grand Palais&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,12,15],"tags":[120,4176],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-photography","category-technology","tag-expositions","tag-leon-gimpel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3aZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}