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Official Name Exposition internationale des arts et techniques dans la vie moderne

Theme Art and technology as applied in modern life

Duration 25 May - 25 November 1937 (185 days)

Location Paris city centre: Champs de Mars, in front of the Trocadero, to the banks of the Seine

Area: 105 hectares of which 9.5 hectares occupied by buildings housing France and the guest countries

Symbol: Palais de Chaillot with Peace Column designed by Jacques Carlu, Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, Léon Azéma

Organisation Upper Exposition Council: 42 members, president: Minister of Trade and Industry
Control Commission:
President: Joseph Caillaus
Executive Committee
Vice-president: Julien Durand

Commissioner General: Edmond Labbé, director general of technology education

General Secretary: Charles Ettori, council of state reporter

Architects: Chief architect Charles Letrosne (to Nov. 1935), then Jacques Gréber, as well as Robert Martzloff for park and garden architecture

Finance Director: Henri Pignerol, Paris council finance director

Participating countries: 46

Exhibitors: 11,000

Visitors: 31,040,955

Entrance fee: 6 Francs

Costs: Official figures as at 21 December 1940:
Income: 1,661,024,345 Francs
Expenses: 1,443,288,391 Francs
Profit: 217,735,953 Francs

Financing:
State subsidies: 1,265,897,641 Francs;
Paris council subsidy: 351,000,000 Francs
National Lottery profits of up to 295,000,000 Francs awarded for 3 years to the Paris council

Classification: 114 classes and 14 Groups

Category: Category 2 World Exposition

Events: Including 602 congresses during the Exposition


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The Paris World Exposition 1937
 
Year: 1937City: ParisCountry: France
Duration: 25th May - 25th November 1937

 

 

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