Guimard is not to Paris as Mucha is to Prague or Gaudi to Barcelona. But close. And if you know a bit of Art Nouveau and Belle Epoche, etc., you know his name and look for his structures here. We've seen many and wanted to see a few more while we were here. The first is the Metro entrance at Porte Dauphine, one of two remaining full-scale entrances, c. 1900. The second was Guimard's own home, the Hotel Guimard, at 122 Avenue Mozart in the 16th, done in 1908. A bonus was the Villa Flore across the street, one of his last works, done in about 1924, well after Art Nouveau was over.
PS: Getting from Porte Dauphine to 122 Avenue Mozart allowed us to walk nearly the length of the Bois de Boulogne, which we'd been wanting to revisit. I'll post a few pix in the next out-takes. Although there is much to like in the B de B, it's still pretty seedy, in parts, by day as well as by night.
PPS: I'm not counting, but Google is...this is my 2,000th blog post on
The Road Goes Ever On.
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| Built on a triangular corner lot--a weird building |
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| The signature is barely readable and the whole place seems approaching disrepair |
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| Art Nouveau downspout |
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| Unmistakable Guimard graphic |
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| He was doing some form of Art Deco by 1924 |
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| Still Guimard |
2 comments:
2000!!! Wow. That's pretty amazing. Congratulations!
Thanks. I'm glad someone noticed. This occurred on our 2,154th day since embarcation, so it isn't quite one per day. In the States, I think I'll aim for a couple per week. We'll see...maybe it is an obsession/
compulsion, as some say...
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