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1926-1960: Houseware show
Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, fridges, and electric irons: domestic appliances revolutionised daily life and it was in the Nave of the Grand Palais that the public first discovered them.
The first Houseware Show was held in 1926. It was an instant success. In 1955, attendance records were smashed when the exhibition clocked up one million four hundred thousand visitors.
Inauguration of the houseware show, ORTF, February 25 1955 - silent film
The houseware show as seen by Pierre Dac and Francis Blanche, 1st march 1951 (Actualtiés Françaises)
Houseware show, Grand Palais, 1952.
© Roger-Viollet
The French President René Coty inaugurating the houseware show (Salon des arts ménagers) in the Grand Palais. Paris, 1955.
© Roger-Viollet
On February 27, 1953, at the home appliances showroom in Paris, these demonstrators compared their electric mills. Mills and others appliances used to cut, grate or mash vegetables had great success that year
© Keystone-France
A Renault car in front of the Grand Palais at the 39th Motor Show in 1952. The car was being used to advertise Nénette brand domestic and car-cleaning products.
© L’Illustration
