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Hector Guimard (French pronunciation: [ɛktɔʁ ɡimaʁ], 10 March 1867 – 20 May 1942) was a French architect and designer, and a prominent figure of the Art Nouveau style. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger , the first Art Nouveau apartment building in Paris, which was selected in an 1899 competition as one of the ...
The synagogue is commonly referred to as the Pavée synagogue, rue Pavée synagogue, or Guimard synagogue, and was completed in 1914, designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style. The congregation worships in the Ashzenazi rite, led by Rav Moredekhai Rottenberg, the son of the late Rav Haim Yaakov Rottenberg, known as the Rouv. The ...
Louis Coilliot, a French ceramic entrepreneur, was fond of enamelled lava and wanted to popularise the technique. To do so, Coilliot commissioned Hector Guimard, an architect he had met at the 1897 fair La Céramique et tous les arts du feu, ("Ceramic Arts & Glass Making"), to apply the technique to his house's façade. Coilliot's factory and ...
The architecture of St. Louis exhibits a variety of commercial, residential, and monumental architecture. St. Louis , Missouri is known for the Gateway Arch , the tallest monument constructed in the United States.
Modern architecture, ... Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, and Antoni Gaud ... In 1948 he conceived the idea of a monument in St. Louis, Missouri in the form of a ...
1928 – Hector Guimard builds his last house in Paris. 1927 – The Weissenhof Estate, an exhibition of apartment houses designed by leading modern architects, held at Stuttgart, Germany. 1926 – Bauhaus Dessau building, designed by Walter Gropius, opened. Antoni Gaudí and Louis Majorelle die. 1925 – Government House of Thailand, in ...
Castel Henriette in an advertising postcard produced by Hector Guimard Castel Henriette was a villa designed by the Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard in Sèvres , France, in 1899. It was completed in 1900 and modified in 1903 with the removal of the look-out tower, and was demolished in 1969.
March 10 – Hector Guimard, French Art Nouveau architect (died 1942) April 27 – Charles Nicholson, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1949) June 8 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, interior designer, writer and educator (died 1959) June 22 – John A. Pearson, English-born Canadian architect (died 1940) [5]