Hector Guimard completes Castel Béranger (1894-98), one…
1898 CE
The French architect, decorator, and furniture designer, now thirty-one, had studied and later taught at the School of Decorative Arts and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Although much of his work is more engineering than architecture, he considers himself an architecte d'art.
Transformed by what he had seen of Horta's Tassel Hotel in 1894, Guimard had decided to modify all his plans for the apartment building at 16 rue La Fontaine, Passy, Paris, designing every detail (wall paper, door handles, floor tiles, front door.
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Castel Béranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building in Paris. (Photo taken April 6, 2011 by MOSSOT.)
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