Héritages industriels et patrimonialisation : Nancy à l’ombre de la place Stanislas ? by Léopold Barbier

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Forging foam: Metal thresholds at the 1925 Paris Exhibition by O'Mahony, C

“…The Pavilion of Nancy and Eastern France deployed historical and contemporary skills in metalwork as a leitmotif of its decoration, intimating metal’s significance as both the generator of the region’s economic industrial might and the apogee of delicate craft skills resonant with the Rococo threshold of gilded balustrades created by Jean Lamour (1698-1771) which encircle Nancy’s central Place Stanislas. Contrasting practices of manufacture and interactive use across the exhibition’s multiple thresholds attests to how sensorial history can testify to the embodiment of ideological stances experienced within designed environments. …”