Although placed under the sign of the "Revolution" and the "Republic" for the centenary of 1789, Paris World Fair of 1889 had pretty nice aesthetics.
World Fair of 1889: when aesthetics were still meaningful
Nicholas Anderson
Ryder Reyes
The Central Dome
Connor Green
Gallery of Diverse Industries - gateway to the exhibitions
Jayden Cooper
Joseph Bailey
Marble sculptures by Jules Cantini
Jaxson Johnson
Yeah but you still were allowed to smoke everywhere
Justin Reyes
The vestibule
Mason Rodriguez
The Eiffel Tower built for the event
Brandon Cox
Now some pictures of the French exhibitions:
Cameron Collins
Horology
Ethan Reed
Goldsmithery
Angel Lopez
Furniture
Josiah Howard
Pastellists
Anthony Turner
Foraging and Hunting
Cooper Peterson
Jewellery
Blake Williams
Ceramics
Nathaniel Miller
Fabrics
Christian Flores
Because it was pro-Republican, most monarchies boycotted the event, yet the UK, Germany or Italy still sent delegations because the event was very important.
It was however praised by South American newly created Republics.
Here is the pavilion of the UK.
Christian Adams
>there was a time when people cared about the quality and beauty of life rather than mass producing cheap soulless crap that breaks in a week so you have to buy more
after 3 walmart can openers broke in a 3 month period, my grandma gave me her can opener she had since the 1960s that still works better than any you find in stores today
Kevin Reyes
Pavilion of Japan
Zachary Sanders
Pavilion of Egypt
Anthony Walker
Pavilion of Venezuela
Easton Miller
Pavilion of Paraguay
Cameron Wright
Pavilion of Mexico
Mason Carter
Pavilion of Chile
Jaxon Rogers
Pavilion of Brazil
Adrian Bailey
Yep. Fabrics, furnitures, all kind of devices were built to be perennial and beautiful at the same time.
Now they lack both.
Henry Hill
It wasn't only aesthetics, every country which now belongs to the first world was obsessed with pushing the envelope for humanity. Some inventions of the time had advanced ideas even when compared to our current technology.
Mason Cook
peak civilization
Jason Phillips
What the hell happened to World’s Fairs? Are they still being held? Shit looks comfy as fuck, I’d love to go to one.
Anthony Gomez
bump
Logan Allen
Yes
2019's was held in Beijing
The next, Expo 2020, will be held in Dubai and opens Oct 20
Evan Sanders
They exist, but nothing like they used to. The last one was held in Astana, Kazakhstan. Nations don't want to spend the money on expensive pavilions like they used to.
Julian Kelly
Correct, 2019 was a horticultural exhibition
is correct, Kazakhstan held the most recent specialized expo in 2017
Julian Hernandez
*correction
Sweet Jesus
Jace Robinson
Nowadays they are globalist pozzed shit.
Josiah Peterson
>Expo 2020
We'll just see about that.
Nathan Perry
Utter trash
Chase Turner
Kek yes clearly
They played the we wuz human sacrificers and shiet card it seems.
Ayden Gomez
This also. Part of the fun with old World's Fairs were the distinct national identities and cultures displayed through architecture. That isn't allowed anymore in 2020 so look at what Dubai is currently constructing. Amorphous blobs built by pajeet slaves in the desert.
Jace Butler
why the fuck is the ground so wet and look like a dusty warehouse
Nathaniel Rivera
It's not organical, it's the masons after they took over the country, so anything regarding Christianity had to go
Jason Nelson
if something like this existed today Liberals would do everything in their power to destroy it
Ryan Wilson
that's a good thing
Chase Gutierrez
Offensive euro-white culture
Henry Collins
where did they build these pavillions?
Are any of them standing today?
Brayden Gray
Holy crap, all this is so pretty! Why tf do we not do this as much anymore?
Blake Anderson
Likely not. World's Fair structures were typically not built to last, unless they were centerpieces like the Eiffel Tower or Space Needle.
Tyler Hernandez
Something has gone horribly wrong
Gavin Wilson
it's pretty much unfathomable to me how they could build something like that
modern day construction companies build stuff for years and for 10s of millions of bucks with modern day equipment and it looks like the same bland glass and steel crap everytime
Leo Mitchell
The Eiffel Tower was not meant to last but… it did. Many were angry (legitimately I think) at the time because the iron structure was discordant with the rest of Paris
Jack Powell
people used to actually work back then
Carson Phillips
Mr. and dear fellow countryman,
We come, writers, painters, sculptors, architects, lovers of beauty, hitherto untouched from Paris, to protest with all our strength, with all our indignation, in the name of the unknown French taste, in the name of threatened French art and history, against the erection, in the heart of our capital, of the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower, which public malignancy, often imbued with common sense and a spirit of justice, has already christened the "Tower of Babel".
Without falling into the exaltation of chauvinism, we have the right to proclaim loud and clear that Paris is the city without rival in the world. Above its streets, its wide boulevards, along its admirable quays, in the midst of its magnificent promenades, rise the noblest monuments that the human genius has given birth to. The soul of France, creator of masterpieces, shines forth among this august flowering of stone. Italy, Germany, Flanders, so justifiably proud of their artistic heritage, possess nothing comparable to ours, and from every corner of the universe Paris attracts curiosity and admiration. Are we going to let all this be desecrated? Is the city of Paris going to associate itself for longer with the baroque, the mercantile imaginations of a machine manufacturer, to become irreparably ugly and dishonoured? For the Eiffel Tower, which commercial America itself would not want, is, no doubt, the disgrace of Paris. Everyone feels it, everyone says it, everyone is deeply distressed by it, and we are but a weak echo of universal opinion, so legitimately alarmed. Finally, when foreigners come to visit our Exhibition, they will exclaim, astonished: "What! is this horror that the French have found to give us an idea of their much-vaunted taste?"And they will be right to laugh at us, because the Paris of the sublime Gothic, the Paris of Jean Goujon, Germain Pilon, Puget, Rude, Barye, etc., will have become the Paris of Mr. Eiffel.
Henry Hill
It is enough, moreover, to realize what we are advancing, to imagine for a moment a vertiginously ridiculous tower, dominating Paris, as well as a gigantic and black factory chimney, crushing Notre-Dame, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Saint-Jacques tower, the Louvre, the dome of the Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all our humiliated monuments, all our shrunken architectures, which will disappear in this amazing dream. And for twenty years we will see the entire city, still quivering with the genius of so many centuries, we will see the odious shadow of the odious bolted sheet metal column stretched out like an ink stain.
It is to you, Mr. and dear compatriot, to you who love Paris so much, who have embellished it so much, who have so many times protected it from administrative devastation and the vandalism of industrial enterprises, that the honour of defending it once again belongs. We leave it to you to plead the cause of Paris, knowing that you will spend all the energy, all the eloquence that an artist such as yourself must inspire in loving what is beautiful, what is great, what is just. And if our cry of alarm is not heard, if your reasons are not listened to, if Paris persists in the idea of dishonouring Paris, we will at least have, you and we, heard a protest that does honour.
Have already signed:
E. Meissonier, Ch. Gounod, Charles Garnier, Robert Fleury, Victorien Sardou, Edouard Pailleron, H. Gérôme, L. Bonnat, W. Bouguereau, Jean Gigoux, G. Boulanger, J.-E. Lenepveu, Eug. Guillaume, A. Wolff, Ch. Questel, A. Dumas, François Coppée, Leconte de Lisle, Daumet, Français, Sully-Prudhomme, Elie Delaunay, E. Vaudremer, E. Bertrand, G.-J. Thomas, François, Henriquel, A. Lenoir, G. Jacquet, Goubie, E. Duez, de Saint-Marceaux, G. Courtois, P.-A.-J. Dagnan-Bouveret, J. Wencker, L. Doucet, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Amie, Ch. Grandmougin, François Bournaud, Ch. Baude, Jules Lefebvre, A. Mercié, Cheviron, Albert Julien, André Legrand, Limbo, etc.
Connor Smith
this is a text that was published before the World Fair, lol. Quickly translated it with DeepL.
Julian Barnes
It just boggles the mind why we don’t make things look this good anymore. It would cheer me up so much to live in a place like this that was built recently. Too bad that will never happen
Easton Cooper
>It just boggles the mind why we don’t make things look this good anymore
answer is nigs and shitskins, with commies attacking the wealthy
Levi Thompson
>which not even America would want
Fucking kek
Asher Harris
I love the Eiffel Tower, but you have to wonder if these skeptics ended up being right all along. At least Paris had to reason to ban shit like this.
Sebastian Cook
They were right you know. Eiffel tower is not pretty and Paris has much better artworks. Although they are all overshadowed by the tower of Babel or as it is more commonly known as the Eiffel tower.
James Murphy
They were often torn down because the expectation was they'd build more beautiful things next time.
The Eiffel tower was supposed to be temporary. When it became permanent the old elite of Paris were furious. Guy de Maupassant used to take his lunch in the tower because it was the only place he couldn't see it from.
Jaxon Walker
It looks degenerate
Jose Flores
Op
Thanks for the dump
Beautiful pics
Michael Roberts
Because buildings now days are functioning entities, not just a dick showing competition.
On top of this the labor costs would be insane for building such things, back then people were paid pennies a day and worked long hours, and probably lived on work camps near by.
Also, steel is expensive.
Dylan Edwards
Literally down to foreign takeovers. Ethnic foreigners have no reason to make an alien community look nice and look after its people. They're just there to loot it.