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Collectors of the world, antique amateurs, wonderers, don’t miss the 24^th edition of the “Antique Dealers Biennal”, in September 2008 at the Grand Palais. With its majectic architecture and its dazzling sun lounge, this place is the ideal setting for this international art dealers meeting.
The three exceptional worlds of antiques, fine arts and jewelry will be present. The creme de la creme of antique dealers and international art dealers will present the public with quintessentially beautiful, rare and priceless objects, of different times and styles.

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GRAND PALAIS
Avenue Winston-Churchill - 75008 PARIS

www.grandpalais.fr
www.antiquaires-sna.com

The Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine is presenting « Dans la ville chinoise », an exhibition which takes an objective look at the transition of a rapidly developing China. In the run up to the Olympic Games in Beijing, the greatest worldwide sports event and two years away from the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China is seizing the media space. In order to meet the scale of these two events, these two cities have undergone architectural and urban transformation unprecedented in the history of the world.

A movement with a lot of media coverage thanks to the megalopolises (Beijing, Shanghai,etc.) but which has affected the whole of China and has profoundly changed the lives of hundreds of millions of citizens. The scope of this transformation and the speed of its realisation are a true mystery to the common observer.

Thanks to photographs, videos, interviews, etc. of the exhibition « Dans la ville chinoise », the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine sheds light on a phenomenon often obscured by our tourist-driven perspective. A must see event!
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Dans la ville chinoise
A look at the transition of an empire
Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot
1, place du Trocadéro - 75016  Paris

Telephone number :0158515200

Access for persons with limited mobility

Description

In August, the 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, followed in 2010 by the World Expo in Shanghai. These two cities have undergone architectural and urban transformation unprecedented in the history of the world by its scope and rapidity. A movement which has affected the whole of China and has profoundly changed the lives of hundreds of millions of citizens. It is to this urban China that the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine devotes the exhibition “Dans la ville chinoise”.

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