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2. Madame Guimard's furniture - Wikipedia

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   Madame Guimard's furniture is a set of Art Nouveau bedroom furniture, designed from 1909 onwards by the Lyon-born architect Hector Guimard for his new wife, the American artist Adeline Oppenheim. They married in 1909, and the same year he bought a site at 122 Avenue Mozart in the 16th arrondissement of Paris to build a three-storey hôtel ...

3. Hector Guimard - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Art Nouveau furniture - Wikipedia

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   Guimard's furniture, made for his own and other residences, highlighted the curving natural forms and perfectly matched the architecture. [ 10 ] Eugene Gaillard and Georges de Feure showed their work at what Samuel Bing called The Pavillon L'Art Nouveau at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 .

5. Art Nouveau in Paris - Wikipedia

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   Furniture was another important domain of the Art Nouveau. In some cases the architects themselves designed the furniture to match the exterior and interior decoration of the house, based on sinuous and curving lines and other forms based upon nature. This was the case of the Hôtel Guimard, the residence of Hector Guimard. The objective of ...

6. Whiplash (decorative art) - Wikipedia

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   Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Henry van de Velde and other Art Nouveau architects designed chairs, tables, lamps, carpets, tapestries ceramics, and other furnishings with similar curling whiplash lines. The whiplash line was intended to show the clear break from the eclectic historical styles that had dominated furniture and decoration for most ...

7. Castel Henriette - Wikipedia

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   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.