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2. Gustave Eiffel - Wikipedia

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   Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born in France, in the Côte-d'Or, the first child of Catherine-Mélanie (née Moneuse) and Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel. [6] He was a descendant of Marguerite Frédérique (née Lideriz) and Jean-René Bönickhausen, who had emigrated from the German town of Marmagen and settled in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century. [7]

3. Eiffel Tower (Delaunay series) - Wikipedia

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   The Eiffel Tower series of Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) is a cycle of paintings and drawings of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel. The series was painted in an emerging Orphist style, an art movement co-founded by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and František Kupka that added bright colors and increased abstraction to ...

4. Category:Gustave Eiffel's designs - Wikipedia

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   Designs by Gustave Eiffel. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. E. Eiffel Tower (3 C, 11 P) S. Statue of Liberty (2 C, 37 P ...

5. Eiffel Tower Fast Facts - AOL

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   Original designers: Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin, Emile Nouguier, Stephen Sauvestre. 50 engineers and designers produced 5,300 workshop designs. The tower was constructed with some 18,038 ...

6. La Ruche (residence) - Wikipedia

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   Originally a temporary building designed by Gustave Eiffel for use as a wine rotunda at the Great Exposition of 1900, the structure was dismantled and re-erected as low-cost studios for artists by Alfred Boucher (1850–1934), a sculptor, who wanted to help young artists by providing them with shared models and an exhibition space open to all ...

7. The Paris Olympics medals are monumental. They're embedded ...

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   Built for the 1889 World’s Fair — which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution — engineer Gustave Eiffel’s tower was only intended to stand for 20 years.

8. Paris architecture of the Belle Époque - Wikipedia

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   The nature of the revolution was not evident, because Baudot faced the concrete with brick and ceramic tiles in a colorful Art nouveau style, with stained glass windows in the same style. A new style, Art Deco, appeared at the end of the Belle Époque and succeeded Art Nouveau as the dominant architectural tradition in the 1920s. Usually built ...

9. Exposition Universelle (1889) - Wikipedia

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   The Eiffel firm had advance knowledge of the project and, beginning in 1884, had already designed a tower exactly to those dimensions. The structural design was created by two Eiffel engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, who along with Eiffel himself, received the patent for the plan.