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Document Details : Title: Kunst, ambacht en industrie Subtitle: Het Belgische paviljoen voor de Louisiana Purchase International Expositionin St. Louis in 1904 Author(s): PACKET, Tom Journal: Tijdschrift voor Interieurgeschiedenis en Design Volume: 46 Date: 2024 Pages: 25-44 DOI: 10.2143/GBI.46.0.3293682 Abstract : On 13 May 1904, the Belgian pavilion opened its doors at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a World’s Fair that would go down in history as one of the largest ever organised. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the US had steadily been developing as a major economic power, an evolution that spurred the Belgian government to fund, for the first time, a national pavilion on US soil to showcase most of the Belgian objects on display. Architect Paul Saintenoy (1862-1952) designed a unique building for this purpose, one that embodied Belgium’s artistic elegance, industrial strength and cultural civilisation. This contribution reconstructs the design of the Belgian pavilion in 1904, and also shows how the reception and discourse surrounding Saintenoy’s pavilion differed strikingly on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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