Kamis, 24 Oktober 2013

El Ateneo Grand Splendid BookStore


El Ateneo Grand Splendid

Found at 1860 Santa Fe Avenue in Barrio Norte, the building was created by architect and Torres Pero Armengol for empresario Max Glucksman (1875-1946), and opened as a theater known as Teatro Gran Splendid Might 1919. The developing characteristics ceiling ecleticist frescoespainted by Italian artist Nazareno Orlandi, and caryatids carved by Troiano Troiani

El Ateneo at the time as the Residence Theatre
Theatre El Ateneo has a seating capacity of 1050, and held a assortment of performances, which includes appearances by Carlos Gardel tango artist, Francisco Canaro, Roberto Firpo and Ignacio Corsini. Glücksman start off your own radio station in 1924 (Radio Splendid), which was broadcast from the creating in which her record label, Nacional Odeon, produced some early recordings of tango singers of the working day. In the late twenties theater converted into a cinema, and in 1929 confirmed the very first audio movie is observed and listened to in Argentina.

El Ateneo as a Bookstore

Previous ornate theater was rented by Grupo Ilhsa in February 2000. Ilhsa, through mathematics, has the El Ateneo and Yenny bookseller (by far more than 40 stores), and El Ateneo as the publisher. The building was later on renovated and transformed into a bookstore and music below the route of the architect Fernando Manzone, cinema seats have been removed and alternatively mounted bookshelf. Following working refurbished, with 2,000 m² (21,000 ft ²) El Ateneo Grand Splendid become major shop teams, and in 2007 marketed far more than seven-hundred,000 books, far more than 1 million men and women walked by means of the door on an once-a-year basis.

Seats are supplied through the developing, like box theater that is nevertheless intact, in which customers can get into the ebook just before acquiring, and now there is a cafe at the rear of the previous phase. Ceilings, ornate carvings, pink phase curtains, auditorium lights and a lot of architectural particulars. Even with the adjustments, the creating even now retains the emotion of a massive theater once was. The Guardian, a top British periodical, referred to as El Ateneo of 2008 record of Entire world Best 10 Very best Bookshops.















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