Hector Guimard designs his best-known works, the…

1901 CE

Hector Guimard designs his best-known works, the several fanciful entrance structures (1898­-1901) for the new Paris Métro (subway), of cast iron in plantlike forms.

The Place de la Bastille station suggests Chinese pagoda architecture as well as Art Nouveau.

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