The story points to Austrian mechanic Erwin Perzy in 1900, but records show snow globes existed by at least 1878.

One hundred years ago, a sprawling international exhibition was staged in Paris. It was intended to dazzle visitors with all that was new in architecture, design, fashion, and jewelry, and to ...

The show at the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation juxtaposes the late designer's work with the vintage Dior creations he collected.

THE great moment is when, after an ocean, frontiers, and inexorable Paris landlords, you arrive, disembarrassed of everything, on the inner terrace of the Trocadéro palace. You hold yourself open to ...

Check out Nicholas Lowry's appraisal of a 1937 Jean Carlu Paris Exposition poster in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

The pediment of the Grand Palais, a Beaux-Arts wonder that has become one of Paris’s most iconic structures, makes its ambitions plain: “This Monument was dedicated by the Republic to the Glory of ...

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At the Paris Exposition in 1900, representatives from around the world celebrated achievements like railroads and modern factories and touted the “civilizing” rhetoric of colonialism. However, one ...

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Many of today’s visitors who go to the Bois de Vincennes as an escape from Paris’s crowds and buildings would have trouble imagining it as it was in 1931, when dozens of buildings crowded around the ...

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