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For its 43rd, the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC), one of the world's  leading art fairs, will run from 20 to 23 October this year, bringing together 186 of the most prestigious galleries in the historical Parisian venue, the Grand Palais. FIAC expands with "On Site", a series of sculptural works and installations at th Petit Palais, a historic building facing the Grand Palais that was built for the Exposition Universelle (World'sFair) in 1900 like the Grand Palais itself. The opening of the Salon Jean Perrin, the Grand Palais' new exhibition room, will focus on works by artists from the late twentieth century. 

FIAC's public events programme, Hors les Murs is renowned for its unparalleled diversity and
 the beauty of its locations. The itinerary will cover three emblematic venues: The Tuileries Garden, the Musée National Eugène Delacroix and the Place Vendôme.

Chairs by Architects by Agata Toromanoff . Ed Thames & Hudson 160p. 2016 - 

'Chairs by Architects' answers these and many other questions to show how qualities in the buildings by architects are also evident in their chair designs: pieces of furniture, like manifestos, become signatures of architectural style. The 55 architects include early modern architectural pioneers such as Otto Wagner, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Antoni Gaudí and Walter Gropius, together with more recent modern masters such as Oscar Niemeyer, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and the late Zaha Hadid.