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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 11: 75 Digue de Mer (Dunkerque - Nord)


finish our little tour of Dunkirk, still with OP, with two buildings Jules Potter (1872 -1926). This architect was the nephew of Gabriel Pagnerre, very prolific architect in the Northern Department.
Potter seems to have been specifically attached to the city of Dunkirk, and more particularly to this area very singular Malo-les-Bains, which unquestionably deserves a visit.

On the seafront, which were built many beautiful villas are now extinct, Potier was designed around 1905, the house "Quo Vadis" at No. 75. Its preservation is exceptional today, although we have not quite succeeded in its original condition, both destruction and "renovations" have affected this part of town. If she lost her balcony metal, first floor - replaced by an element glazed with a very poor design, on which the name of the building was stupidly added a second time - she has fortunately able to save most of its enamel steel decor, soft colors and graphics appealing.

The house is mainly for original shapes, round about the second story window, more "Chinese" level. Unfortunately, a raised him to lose at a time already old, its pretty glazed tiles and the bell which had just finished giving an elegant silhouette to any such construction simple.
But we can meet some of these damages of the time: watching old postcard, we will see that the house next door was more severely distorted ...

is reassuring us at No. 25 instead of Turenne, where Jules Potter built a charming little house that we came in much better condition. If the bricks had not used this color indicates that sustained many buildings in northern France, one could easily believe in a street of Nancy. Potter has certainly known by the press of the time, the constructions of Emile Andre, whose windows were sometimes this form of heart shown here on the ground floor. In architecture Nancy, Potier also borrowed gear neo-Gothic, much more rare in the region of Flanders.

The design of the facade is balanced and Art Nouveau elements involved in the solid feel assured that we must recognize it. The only small vanity, charming, one could possibly blame him lies in the two tiny faces that appear in the columns of the first floor balcony. Their style would not be inconsistent with what little we know about the art of Maurice Ringot (see previous story) and we would not be surprised to learn that he collaborated on this project: the sculptors "modern" should not be so numerous that in Dunkirk and Ringot must have had him for most of the market in the field of sculpture "1900".

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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 10: 51 Avenue Gustave-Lemaire (Dunkerque - Nord)


Since OP has sent me pictures of several buildings of Dunkirk, all more interesting than each other, therefore remain in this city where Art Nouveau has grown from a fairly extraordinary, mainly in the seaside neighborhood more of Malo-les-Bains.
The house is a construction Ringot truly amazing, joyous and inventive, covered with a multitude of small lovely grounds, among which are busts of young women, above the two windows on the ground floor, animals, on the eardrums of those on the first floor, and elsewhere invasive plants, mostly roses and sunflowers.

The overall style of the building is Gothic Revival, but the details are rather baroque, under this "noodle style" which is still something very surprising and extraordinarily entertaining. The balcony
the first floor, apparently straight out of a scene from "Romeo and Juliet" is a pattern of elegant grace, but that could never be built in the Middle Ages or even the seventeenth century. It is fantasy, caprice, decor, like most of the amazing sculptures of the facade.

The authors of this curiosity is to name Ringot. One was the original contractor and his name was "E." and the other was a sculptor's name was Maurice. It obviously seems likely that the two men belonged to the same family and the house was built for one of them. The importance of the decor seems to suggest that it was for the sculptor himself, who conceived perhaps the plan.

The polychrome façade was it originally? While the highlights of yellow we can see today can point out some nice details, this color seems excessive to say the least, emphasizing the character still a bit "kitschy" decor. For my part, I doubt that flowers, faces - and even some single birds - may have been tainted at the time construction. One can imagine that some lines of architecture had been so slightly highlighted, but without pushing too far with polychrome which, at present, almost looks like a "coloring". The fact remains that the result is strange, funny, surprising, even if it seems at odds with the original intentions of Becket.
The Gateway and its adjacent window are subject to a fine treatment, especially at work ironwork. It is in the basement of the balcony, which also serves as an awning at the entrance of the house, found the signatures Authors of the building.

Ringot Maurice has worked on several public monuments of Dunkirk. That he created for the Fiftieth Anniversary of Rosendaël - name of another district of Dunkerque - could disappear if we had not had the good idea to find a new location. Indeed, built in 1909 by architect Arthur Gontier, while he was sitting in front of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. In 1921, we moved this unique pastry on the Place Voltaire, a little further north.