Coat hangers were not invented until 1900, but flush loos were seen at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
The nineteenth was the British century, of industry and empire, the workshop of the world, Waterloo and the Great Exhibition.
Hilltop Crystal Palace Park was created to display Joseph Paxton's behemoth glass-and-iron structure, relocated from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Long gone are the days of the Great Exhibition in London of 1851, the progenitor of all expos, when the point was to show off manufactured goods (and British industrial strength).
When Gamble exhibited an array of canned foods at the Great Exhibition in 1851, to widespread approval, it must have seemed like the tin can's switch from military necessity to household must-have was only a matter of time.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, the 7th Marquess of Salisbury, said it hoped to capitalise on the "great success" of the Henry Moore exhibition, which celebrated the house's 400th anniversary in 2011.
The annual Taipei Chinese Food Festival will be held Aug. 20 to 24 at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall--yet another great excuse for visitors to feast on the city's many delights.
The exhibition will include work from Great Britain, United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and the Scandinavian countries.
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Everyone has been so enthusiastic about the exhibition and it's great to know that it is such a popular picture.
This solid, stunning and serious exhibition of the work of the great Finnish architect, "Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism" (up through May 26), delivers a clear, timeless and incontrovertible message: These are some of the most original and beautiful buildings of our time.
In place of what was once a draughty assembly hall is the Michael Fuchs Galerie, where the inaugural exhibition Hang On (running until 31 March) includes Warhol portraits of Frederick the Great, Frank Stella's stainless steel and carbon sculptures and works by contemporary German artists like Jonas Burgert and Gregor Hildebrandt.
The range of functions to which he put them is so great that any exhibition can only hope to provide a window into his aims.
Adriaen van Ostade, the master of peasant genre scenes, is represented by "The Violinist" (1673) and seven lively etchings in a great print exhibition next door in which people are entertained by an itinerant fiddler in front of an inn.
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