The 'Pavillion japonais' designed by Charles Garnier at the 1889 Paris World Exhibition

摘要

At the Garnier-pavilion, it is interesting to see that for thernchoice of inspiration for the introduction of Japanese Architecture,rnan in a way artistic, however by no means typical representationrnwas chosen, placing the eastern culture into a sort of fairyrntale world.rnHowever, before misjudging this choice as a mere examplernof the free usage of exotic motifs in a Western-context, it has tornbe pointed out, that this pavilion was actually an exact representationrnof how a phantasy house genre originally created by thernJapanese themselves.