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Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building in Paris. The Castel Béranger is a residential building with thirty-six apartments located at 14 rue de la Fontaine in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed by the architect Hector Guimard, and built between 1895 and 1898.
The Art Nouveau became the most famous style of the Belle Époque, particularly associated with the Paris Metro station entrances designed by Hector Guimard, and with a handful of other buildings, including Guimard's Castel Béranger (1898) at 14 rue La Fontaine, in the 16th arrondissement, and the ceramic-sculpture covered house by architect ...
Undulating and coagulating forms are found in every material from stone, wood, cast iron, glass (Mezzara hotel, 1910), fabric (Guimard hotel, 1909), paper (Castel Béranger, 1898), wrought iron (Castel Henriette, 1899), and ceramic (Coilliot House, 1898); Guimard compared it analogously to the flowing of sap running from a tree, referring to ...
Castel Béranger, Hector Guimard, 1898 1898: Hector Guimard, castel Béranger, 14 rue Jean-de-La-Fontaine, 16th arrondissement of Paris. [2] Georges Debrie, 24 rue du Roi-de-Sicile, 4th; Charles Breffendille, 18 rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, 1st; Louis-Pierre Marquet, 204 rue de Grenelle, 7th; Henri Bunel and Fernand Dupuis, 39 rue d'Antin, 2nd
A majority of the buildings in the new style were constructed in the wealthy 16th arrondissement. The first was the Castel Béranger (1895–98) by Hector Guimard, built shortly after he visited Brussels, met Paul Hankar and toured the Hôtel Tassel, the town house completed by Victor Horta in 1893, and which had a major impact on his style. [3]
Alexandre Bigot (5 November 1862 – 27 April 1927) was a French ceramicist. He was primarily a ceramics manufacturer, producing the designs of many artists and architects of the French-Belgian Art Nouveau movement, including: Jules Lavirotte, Hector Guimard, Louis Majorelle, Henri Sauvage, Henry van de Velde, Auguste Perret, Andre Arfvidson, Anatole de Baudot and more.
The Art Nouveau became the most famous style of the Belle Époque, particularly associated with the Paris Métro station entrances designed by Hector Guimard, and with a handful of other buildings, including Guimard's Castel Béranger (1898) at 14 rue La Fontaine, in the 16th arrondissement, and the ceramic-sculpture covered house by architect ...
Credit line: Gift of Unknown Donor: Notes: Type: photograph; Inscribed: Printed in black ink, upper left: HECTOR GUIMARD / Architect d'Art / Castel Beranger. 16 Rue La Fontaine; upper right: LE STYLE GUIMARD / No 3; lower left: GYÖRGYFALVY DEL.