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The craftsman
(August 1914)

Guérin, Jules
The magic city of the Pacific: architects, painters and sculptors offer their best to the Panama-Pacific Exposition,   pp. 465-480


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"COURT OF THE UNIVERSE" IS IN THE FORM OF A VAST OVAL: THROUGH
THE MIGHTY GATES
CROWNED WITH STATUES SYMBOLIZING THE NATIONS OF THE EAST AND THE NATIONS
OF THE
WEST, THE LIVING PEOPLE FROM THE EAST AND FROM THE WEST WILL COME: GREAT
FRIEZES OF
(OLOR ORNAMENT THE SWEEPING COLONNADES: TWO FOUNTAINS REPRESENTING THE RISING
AND
THE SETTING SUN FACE THESE GATEWAYS: AT NIGHT THEY WILL BE LUMINOUS WITH
COLORS,
PLAYED UPON BY POWERFUL INCANDESCENT JEWEL LIGHTS: FROM ORIGINAL DRAWING
BY JULES
GUkRIN.
Copvriqht, 1914, b.y The Panama-Pacific
Interndtiwnal Exposition Company.


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