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10.00" x 6.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 12.00"
Gran Hotel Framed Print
by John Bartosik
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Gran Hotel framed print by John Bartosik. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
The Gran Hotel came into being as the Mercantile Center in 1899, built for a merchant by the name of Jose de Teresa. At the end of the 19th century,... more
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Artist's Description
The Gran Hotel came into being as the "Mercantile Center" in 1899, built for a merchant by the name of Jose de Teresa. At the end of the 19th century, Mexico made strides to modernize; one way of doing this was by introducing new building techniques. It was the first building built using the "Chicago" technique, using iron and concrete and was home to one of the first department stores in Mexico City. Its entrance and facade is located on 16 de Septiembre and not the Zocalo. For that reason, its facade is the original Neoclassical and not the neocolonial mandated by the government to unify the appearance of the Zocalo. Only the side of the building facing the Zocalo itself has been redone in this fashion.
The interior of the hotel maintains most of the original decor created for when it was a department store. It is a decorated lavishly in the Art Nouveau style. It had an undulating and enveloping stairway, which was a replica of the one from the Au Bon Marché store in Paris,...
About John Bartosik
Award winning Canadian Photographer John Bartosik, who studied at Toronto's Ryerson photo arts department was a commercial photographer serving corporate, industrial, tourism and institutional clients throughout North America. John's debut as a photographer initiated in Whistler, B.C.with the tourism industry. Surrounded by the majestic beauty of the Coast Mountains, John was inspired to continue his own personal photography, some of which was published in the first of three photo gift books titled Sea to Sky Country. By 2003, John embraced the new archival technology to prepare and print his personal collection of original transparencies to digital files through high quality scans; "The results produced brilliant, exquisite colour with...
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Jeff Mize
Nicely done John ! LF