If you want to learn about elevator manners, go to Nihonbashi Takashimaya in Tokyo, Japan.

Since its founding in 1831, Nihonbashi Takashimaya has been a people-centered department store that enhanced customers’ expectations on service and hospitality while closely mastering traditional manners and customs.

1908 Otis Fensom Heritage Lift Finds its Former Glory at Ontario Heritage Trust

This is what it feels like when a “working artifact” morphs off the pages of history and into today. This particular artifact is located in the Birkbeck Building at 10 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, a historic 1908 building that houses the headquarters of the Ontario Heritage Trust. Bubelis is the trust’s architect and the man who decided to rebuild the elevator to look and operate as it did in 1908, the year the building opened.

The Elevator Legacy - 161 Years Later

For over a hundred years Nations around the world have honoured people, events, and significant moments through commemorative stamps. Unlike other regular postage stamps (known as definitives), commemorative stamps are printed only once and are allowed to go out of circulation as their supply is used up. Which brings us some 161 Years after March 23, 1857 when Elisha Otis' 1st Elevator was installed at 488 Broadway, New York City.

Elevator History, Heritage Elevator, OTIS ElevatorJoshua NelsonFebruary 4, 2020Otis, Otis Elevator, USA Stamp, Elevator Heritage

The Historic Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City

Built on the very edge of a cliff overlooking the a 76m (250ft) drop, overlooking the surrounding city, the 611 room 80-metre-tall (260 ft) was the tallest buildings in the entire province of Quebec. To shuttle passengers and their luggage through the 18 storey building monolith, architects installed three gated manually operated elevators in the main lobby. More were added during two major expansions to the hotel, one in 1908–09, and another in 1920–24.

Elevator History, Heritage Elevator, Hotel ElevatorJoshua NelsonDecember 18, 2019Hotel, Quebec, Canada, History, Historic, Otis Elevator

Eiffel Tower Elevator

Equipping the Eiffel Tower with safe passenger lifts was a major concern of the government commission overseeing the Paris Exposition. Although some visitors could be expected to climb to the first level, or even the second, lifts clearly had to be the main means of ascent.

25 Creative Elevator Designs That Changed Everything

Elevator design is not something many people think of. Even professional architects, urban planners and designers overlook their significance to modern buildings and cities as a whole. Over the past decade our team of vertical transportation specialists has worked to elevate the narrative around these little spaces in a big way.

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Here are twenty print ads by the Otis Elevator Company that are creatively brilliant. They have a solid concept topped off with great design which to date embody the brilliance of this North American company.