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| Address | Rue Millet, 11 | Paris XVI, M° Jasmin |
| Author | Hector Guimard | |
| Year | 1910 | |
Parigi Art Nouveau is a
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A small but cute little house. We can find here almost everything is Art Nouveau for Guimard. From the entrance door, shaped like an open mouth (on the right) to the iron works of the balconies, the wave-shaped facade, the three-openings window. Striking the picture window at the ground floor. From now on we are entering Guimard district. At every corner we find a house, an apartment block. I think this building is quite nice, but I think one can see the true Guimard in his small houses. Nice balconies and oddly shaped windows. It would be really interesting to visit the inside. | ||||||||||||
| It’s incredible to notice again that, even in such an impersonal building as this one, we find the will to diverge from tradition, for example the front of the building is convex, asymmetric. I wonder why in Italy, and especially in Turin, even though we say that one follows the Art Nouveau style only superficially (only in the facade, we say) and, ironically, it’s mostly in he facade that our authors don’t even think to experiment. | |||||||||||||
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