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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 16: 26 boulevard Gambetta (Troyes - Aube)


At Troyes, there is also Art New! That's what GM tells us that sends us some pictures of the Villa Viardot. It derives its name from the Trojan architect Gaston Viardot, who built it in 1908 for a druggist and merchant of colors named Isidore Xavier Perron. Other sources, probably less reliable, you will say it was quite dealer sponsor meat ... What exactly do we know?
The certain thing is that its takeover by the Caisse d'Epargne in 1984, saved the building from demolition promised. Once, narrowly averted! A museum is also open for a short time, which should be able to afford to enjoy the interior, it has been preserved - and, of course, if it has a potential interest. The museum tells the story of the French Caisses d'Epargne, from 1822 to today.

The house appears as a kind of puzzle fun in a variety of architectural forms, with little relation to each other. Large arched bay tripartite loggia, round tower, roof quadrangular an elegant and impressive height, all the paraphernalia of classical architecture is here at the rendezvous, under the delicious pastries made by sculptor E. Boulin - who had the wise idea sign of the villa along with the architect.
So especially for carved decoration, in addition to the delicious complexity of volume and a very charming metal fence, as the Villa Viardot should hold our attention, in particular female heads picturesque, so typical of the Modern Style. If this work is far from being uninteresting, there is still a little heavy, which is still not without charm.

Certainly, as we remember our friendly match with flavor, the house is quite typical of these plush villas for new rich that you could then build in Good prefectures of our regions. So there is hope of finding many other Art Nouveau buildings of the same kind, and for the same type of ownership as we have already met in Orleans, or even in Agen in Roubaix. Unfortunately, urban development has often been cruel to these properties, often very well located, but were often the target of an indifference - when he was not acting from a deep disgust - for an artistic style very quickly regarded as outdated, ridiculous, outrageous, vulgar Their number fell out in alarming proportions, and an irreversible way, unfortunately. The latter, with its wrong Mediterranean air, well deserved to be preserved. Its current status, in addition to allowing us to penetrate easily, it finally seems to provide a long-term conservation.


PS: After some well-deserved vacation (I think), I will publish the latest posts (if any). As I returned on October 1, you have a little more than a good week for me your findings. After this date ... it will be too late. But you can still vote, obviously. I will tell you how (Very simple), the time came. See you soon.

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Entr'acte # 26: ... Zakopane (Poland)


The weather has cooled. Autumn arrives. And the holidays are over for most of us. But that prevents us from there, even in imagination, to continue walking through the world of Art Nouveau? And wait a little more wintry weather to get on our walks in Paris?
For today, I suggest you go to Poland, the strange discovery of two villas in the charming town of Zakopane, a renowned ski resort, located a few kilometers to the north the Slovakian border. It
were both built by Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1851-1915), which is certainly better known in his country as a writer and as a painter than an architect. However, it is considered as the creator - or only the best representative? - What is called the "Zakopane Style". But is it a style that can easily relate to Art Nouveau?

Witkiewicz The first building, the Villa Koliba, is now a museum are exhibited many paintings of the artist, which can be attached to the realism Polish, powerful and sometimes dark, but where some Thanksgiving 1900 are not entirely absent, especially in some of his portraits. The house is characterized by its architecture almost entirely of wood and the multiplication of its picturesque roofs. At first glance, we are dealing with a traditional construction, very well adapted to the harsh climate of the mountains.

But some details can only disturb the mind, as the sophisticated decor of the railing of the terrace or staircase, but all parties engraved or perforated inside the home. Yet it was built in 1892-1893 at a time when Art Nouveau was just emerging in the countries of Europe where the style began to emerge. How to explain, and the amazing decoration wrought iron gateway, which can be guessed very amusing stylized lizards, or floral - also metal - some windows?

The strangeness of the villa also comes from its furniture, maybe later, but where an Art Nouveau further characterized relates to all styles developed in Scandinavia or Finland, where structure, simplicity and strength are the watchwords of great originality. This furniture has the advantage that we learn the roots basically popular and traditional Polish Art Nouveau, and the famous "Zakopane style" in particular.

We find confirmation of this in the Pod Jedlami villa, built in 1896-1897 by Witkiewicz. We find, especially at the carved wooden panels, everything that Art Nouveau is the local traditional crafts. But the powerful foundation of the building stone, adorned with buttresses many architects more "Latin" has been used and sometimes abused afterwards. A curious wrought iron railing, iris pattern, completes bring confusion in our minds? And though it really is Art Nouveau?


Witkiewicz has built several other houses in Zakopane, but also the charming little chapel Jaszczurowce. It includes all the features of his talent as an architect: beautiful stone foundations, with arches curiously shaped wooden panels decorated radiant with metallic elements strange resonances.



Doubtless we must reject, finally, the "Zakopane style" outside the bounds of the Art Nouveau style, in all its other European definitions. Born too soon, still largely subject to more traditional styles in Poland, it is nevertheless troubling, confirming the ancient origins, diverse and sometimes obscure the Modern Style. It is obvious that variations thereof, in the Nordic countries, are perfectly linked to ancient traditions and are tied more authentically than in Latin countries. Zakopane remains Perhaps a mystery ... I invite you to pierce yourself. This winter, perhaps, if you also like to ski!

Johnny The Homicidal Maniac

Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 15: 65 rue de la Ravinel (Nancy - Meurthe-et-Moselle)


"It's a blue house ..." Hey, no! Pace Maxime le Forestier, it is yellow, a bright yellow well that perfectly highlights the faience panels of the facade. But the grounds have been painted on a background uniform .... blue sky. Like what ... we can always fall back on its feet!
The house is almost directly on the railway that crosses the quai Claude le Lorrain. There is no odd numbers for this track because that side does as gardens, corresponds to the buildings constructed on the street Isabey. Nevertheless, the No. 65 of the yellow house looks good fun for the modest pretentious - and short - Rue de la Ravinel. It corresponds to a hypothetical odd-numbered Wharf facing it, access to the front door by doing a sort of outgrowth of the roadway after the said street of Ravinel.

Despite our efforts, we could not find the name of the architect of this singular building. Entries are however many "Labor", "Studium" "Painting," "Sculpture" and two dates, one in relief - 1885, which must match the start of construction - and the other, earthenware: 1887, which seems to signal the end of construction and date the laying of ceramic decoration. Moreover, the only balcony of the building, first floor, bears the letter "B", which is the original sponsor. Nevertheless, it can be seen in streets close enough, several other villas, some built by Lambert and bearing signs of a similar type of earthenware. Could it be the same architect?
The construction is very visible under the term of the study and the arts. She wants her own artistic work, adding architecture and decorative arts disciplines that were to be honored. For the "yellow house" does not fail to be noticed, both by its color than its rather luxurious decor, tile laying patterns of scrolls, emblems, palm leaves, all in a very entertaining fantasy. But, on both sides of a severe mustachioed soldier, two girls profiles are characterized by low relief: the left is an Alsatian, the right is Lorraine, and they evoke, of course, then the regions Catalog of France since 1871: Alsace and the entire department of Moselle. This policy does not mention us little surprise to Nancy, where the assertion of belonging to France was strong and sometimes ostentatious.

Thanks to DM for sending. It shows us we can find a building fun and enjoyable ... that is not at all in Art Nouveau style. Not at all? Really? Just curious to observe a very decorative, meant to imitate the boss, which kind of wavelets form a strange carpet of macaroni. It prefigures, with nearly ten years ahead, abstract curiosities whose Modern Style will regale us.

Butal Apap 325 Caff Tab

Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 14: 12 rue Gallieni (Cachan - Val-de-Marne)


After Dunkirk and Roubaix, OP also sent me - as a dessert? - Some pictures of the former gendarmerie de Cachan, now occupied by the services of town planning.
Service Inventory of Ile-de-France was probably not wrong to argue that it is the only Art Nouveau police of our country, because, actually, I do not know else. This type of building apparently did not really attracted architects fans of Art Nouveau. At least this would be the opposite ... The police are probably people too serious to entrust to their home ... Funny.

Adolphe Yvon, author of the building - probably related to the painter of the same name - is not especially recognized for his achievements within the Modern Style. That's what makes this very strange gendarmerie, by itself, but also in the work of an architect more likely academic.
Probably because of its singular function, the building has been published in the magazine "Architecture", in 1904. The images accompanying this article can see that the door opened originally on a porch that has since been closed by a second door, functional but mundane. The set loses some of its charm, this porch has had the effect of a front dig a little flat. At the same time, he emphasized symmetry providing a counterpoint to the two lateral pinnacles that crown the building while providing the date of 1901 to view.

The main interest of this very singular police is the large inscription which replaces the right, the mullioned window that exists on the first bay on the left. It alone is enough to create a picturesque element of discord. In a very graphic "modern", it says: "Property of the Department of the Seine," an assertion which is no longer true because, outside of Paris, all towns in the former department of Seine are TODAY 'hui attached to neighboring districts.
We're not going to cry genius. Art Nouveau is very quiet here, even if it appears in both the structure of the building - the arcs largely lowered the ground floor - And the decor at the console windows and pinnacles. But its original function commanded relative sobriety, even if some enlightened minds here have sought an originality that rarely gendarmerie.

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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 13: 16 Boulevard du General Leclerc (Roubaix, Nord)


The town of Roubaix is unfortunately not known for its architecture 1900. One true Art Nouveau building, this is not, in fact, neither an important art center, or even a tourist attraction ... Because we are not in Lille, where the house Coilliot Guimard is in itself a goal of walking - the result is absolutely guaranteed! - Elie Dervaux and architect, author of this pleasant fantasy of 1904, has hardly left his name in the annals of architecture.
shame because his work really is not without interest, happily combining multiple patterns with very different origins, probably drawn from the many architectural publications at his disposal in his time.
The general appearance of this house quite close to the seeming oddly enough some Mediterranean architecture, that found in Nice or in northern Italy. Evidenced by its bow window to balcony and decoration carved, closer than burning the round.

The design of the front door could be both Belgian and Nancy, with its elegant wooden compartments. But will concentrate on the amazing composition of two small windows on the ground floor, with ironwork offer truly original design, a graphic remarkably nervous. The heightened color, blue roses forming a very charming effect, helping to attract the eye on those elements of a great invention. The architect seems to have been less fortunate for the door, Hence the need for a ground covering withholds some ventilation. Alas, the railings of the other windows are a nice model, but purely industrial.
The initials of the owner, visible just above the door, seem to be an "H" and "M". But we know little more about his identity.

It seems clear that the coronation of the building - which deserves a good cleaning, it said in passing ... - Disappeared in a very ordinary elevation. The bow window certainly ended by a bell or a scenic lookout fun. Maybe old postcards we learn they a little more about the initial state of the building.
Again thank you to the tireless OP, whose findings we hold many surprises. Does he win? Response in October ...


PS: In doing a little research on a site selling postcards, I found our lovely house, whose address was then "boulevard Gambetta. The bow window was a small independent and pointed roof, which appeared in a window rather simple. For it was commonplace, it still gave crowning a figure a bit more elegant building than it is today. Front of the house, a pretty square with a fountain has become a boulevard which passes one of these new trams that are popping up everywhere in France. This is no longer the same charm.

Mom's Anal Adventure Episode #maamaria: Boobies

Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 12: 1 rue de Paris (Le Touquet-Paris-Plage - Pas-de-Calais)


Long before he thought to open this game, CTAP had sent me some pictures of Alexander Villa, built by the architect Le Touquet F. Gombeau in 1911. Once again, here we are in a charming seaside neighborhood - but not quite at the beach - where picturesque houses and dainty remind us happy Mers-les-Bains, Cabourg and Dunkirk. According to information provided
the site of the city, the house was built in 1900 and would Gombeau that the "modernization", in collaboration with local entrepreneurs, the brothers Pentier.

The result is very original angle with the St. Joseph-Duboc was adorned with a tower suspended from the second floor. It is unclear what could be like the culmination of this singular element in 1911, but we doubt it will be completed in a manner as commonplace. Alas, it is easy to see that building is not in a state of the most satisfactory and it bears heavily upon him the weight of years. But the current bindings of the tower appear to announce the restoration. We are already taking time to see the final result!

Once the renovated house, then we can fully appreciate the complexity of his attractive volume, projection of balconies or the presence of beautiful windows in the roof. But it certainly
decor ceramic particularly attracted the attention, and can attach this charming villa in the world of Art Nouveau in 1913, architects were moving gradually toward a more refined style that would triumph at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925 (hence its name, or Art Deco style "1925"). On the famous tower, crabs, shellfish and aquatic plants in very naturally decorate the windows, the basement and the thick band of the last level.

The color range is mainly green, but a few touches of yellow or brown nicely highlight each pattern. If near the sea, this iconography is not surprising and it may even appear to be relatively expected. It will nevertheless be far more surprised by the odd plank pine branches, girdling strongly the two sides below the level of the roof. The reason has nothing seaside course. But he seems to have been quite familiar to Gombeau architect rare that we do not find other works in Paris, and mainly in the small street Guyton de Morveau in the thirteenth arrondissement.

And at No. 25, there are in fact a plank of pine cones quite similar, although a slightly different design. I do not venture here in attempting to place these sets of sandstone or Bigot Alexandre Gentil and Bourdet: experience has shown me that it was difficult to do immediately, the division between these two companies ... If I could learn a little more, I will not fail to add information.
Soon, I will talk willingly Gombeau and rue Guyton de Morveau, where we provided a nice surprise on another building which he also wrote.