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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