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3 days ago · Designers like Alphonse Mucha and Hector Guimard epitomized this approach, creating works that were both decorative and functional. Mucha’s posters and Guimard’s architectural designs, such as the iconic Paris Métro entrances, are testaments to the movement’s commitment to aesthetic unity and elegance. Art Nouveau (1880s-1910s)
1 day ago · The original Art Nouveau entrances are iconic symbols of Paris. There are currently 83 of them. Designed by Hector Guimard in a style that caused some surprise and controversy in 1900, there are two main variants: The most elaborate feature glass canopies.
23 hours ago · La seconde histoire concerne Hector Guimard et la Salle Humbert de Romans, construite de 1898 à 1901.Nous en avons évoqué les circonstances dans un article récent.L’épisode en question a été rapporté — cette fois du vivant de Guimard — sous une forme quelque peu elliptique par le Bulletin de l’Union Syndicale des Architectes et des Artistes Industriels du 16 janvier 1904.
23 hours ago · La ligne 1, qui traverse Paris d’est en ouest en passant par les Champs-Élysées et le Louvre, est la plus fréquentée, avec 455000 trajets quotidiens, devant la ligne 4 (415000) et la ligne 9 ...
5 days ago · This week played host to the annual Paris Mon Amour auction, where nostalgia from the City of Lights is sold to a crowd of ravenous Francophiles.. This time around, the sale included a Hector Guimard art nouveau bench, an actual bouquiniste bookstand by the Seine, antique canes, beautiful Paris paintings, Eiffel Tower trinkets from the 1800s, and much more.
1 day ago · Elles sont un symbole de Paris : les entrées Art nouveau des bouches de métro, tout en entrelacements de fonte verte, ont été créées par l’architecte Hector Guimard.
4 days ago · Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect, whose distinctive style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous color and texture, and organic unity. Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Familia), which was unfinished at his death in 1926.
