Sometimes a modest building offers a real opportunity to surprise. Because, fortunately, the invention is not restricted to prestigious buildings, neighborhoods and citizens were not the only ones to propose elements of modernity. The building built by architect Dechelette a corner of Gutenberg is a demonstration copy.
It was built for Mr. Lange, who made publishing the application for building permits, 26 March 1904, at the 64 rue Alphonse, corresponding to the current street-Sebastien Mercier. The building, designed entirely in brick, with the addition of very discrete elements in china - which include the signature of the architect - metal parts and some purely decorative, was clearly intended to tenants of modest means.
All may appear rather banal if the two tones of brick - beige and orange - were allowed on both fronts, compose designs totally free, intended to facilitate high walls otherwise condemned to remain sadly bare. The effect is not immediately apparent to the eye, as we are accustomed to the use of this polychrome for cosmetic purposes. But here, the reasons seem almost improvised, very light and free on the street Gutenberg, more dense and complicated on the street-Sebastien Mercier. Next to a strange overlay vases, the architect has developed perfect Art Nouveau lines, using the famous rod that many initiators of the movement preferred the outset, the flower itself.
The result, while remaining very simple, with a great economy of means (as the saying goes), appears very successful, a simple efficiency. Do not you think?
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