"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.
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