Search results for " Esposizioni Universali"

Great Event, a new Strategic Instrument for urban Developpement: On the impact of World Expo on City and Society

2003

Le grandi esposizioni : territori dell’immaginario

2010

Since their appearance, from the first exhibition in London in 1851 to the future in Milan in 2015, we still wonder about the aim of these events. Their role changed, some skills lose their value, and others appeared. Few works focuses on this subject, of which we get sometime only the impetus for the host country to recreate her international image, when, on the contrary, those events become leading urban tools from one continent to another. Which are the principles which support them today? Who decides on their organization? Which regulations govern them? Which are the repercussions on the host town? Curiously, the great contemporary exhibitions have been little studied under these aspect…

Pleyel after Pleyel. The instruments of Auguste Wolff and Gustave Lyon at Universal Exhibitions (1855-c.1905)

2012

The article provides an overview of the Pleyel company during a fifty-year period, starting at the time of the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris and the death of the well-known piano maker Camille Pleyel. During this period, the famous French firm was directed by Auguste Wolff (from 1855 to 1887) and Gustave Lyon (from 1887 to the beginning of twentieth century). The entrepreneurial talents, scientific abilities and musical skills of Pleyel’s two successors made this company the biggest and most innovative French piano producer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Both Wolff and Lyon played leading roles on the occasion of universal exhibitions in which they promoted their renow…