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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 20: 2 bis Avenue Victor-Hugo (Dijon - Cote-d'Or)


Let me say that I liked, in itself, sending PW, who just sent me some pictures of a building valued at a business trip . Some pictures, an address and a little like sharing an emotion stealth. As fast and easy as this ... Was not one of the purposes of this game?
Our friendly correspondent admits to not knowing the identity of the architect of this imposing building, built at the corner of the square-Auguste Dubois Street in Montmartre. Fortunately for us, some works, more or less important, already exist on Art Nouveau Dijon, which allow to know the author, Eugene Brey, and date of construction: 1903-1904.

When I photographed the building a few years ago, he had not been cleaned and still kept in a gray "Picturesque" which emphasized the simplicity of its floral decoration, especially around the corner oriel. I confess to having completed the shipment, which did not allow savor the details, with these older images, they easily identify with their darker tone.
We can easily speak of a Modern Style provincial, who might have become an important work of the "noodle style" if the sculptor had more talent and extravagance. But it must be said that the architect has not much helped by genuine inventiveness in volume, remaining a manufacturer of a very ordinary wisdom. A Scarcely has he had fun piercing angles with the roof, each time, two windows as round as the eyes.

Thus, as presented to us, building a few surprises with daring, but still confined in a very measured registry, printing is widely supported by the presence of ironwork wise enough, and belonging part to a widespread industrial model. One is almost tempted to call all this "shy". But this is it what is its charm: an Art Nouveau dare not openly develop, remaining in the punctuation, such growths in training. A Living Art Nouveau? Reassuring? The masterpieces of the genre do not always have this quality home, it must be acknowledged.

style Dijon 1900 was a very worthy representative Louis Perreau who built in 1906, the jewel that is the building at 9 rue du Chateau, with its pretty roof shaped umbrellas. I will certainly tell some day, but the impatient can already find some pictures by going to 'thistles under the balcony, "a blog friend who also speaks of Art Nouveau. Perreau distinguished himself, the same year, construction of the imposing position of Granger Place, which is mainly for decoration carved Gasq Paul, one of the most delicious sculptors as style 1900 has given us. Moreover, we find other interesting buildings, like the 24 and 25, rue Jacques-Cellerier, or at 4, Avenue Victor-Hugo, just next to the strange work of Eugene Brey. Dijon deserves not she a little visit? And that made a friendly suggestion for the beautiful fall Sunday that will give us maybe.

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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch # 19: 81 Fulham Rd (London - Great Britain)


Second set of DM, I was a little more difficult to trace the whereabouts of this strange curiosity for the London pub Fox & Anchor. But still ... we succeed in everything with a little effort.
Obviously, Michelin House was not originally what it is today, ie a restaurant, oyster bar and cafe. It was good, when it was built in 1909, the London headquarters of the Michelin home. We do not know the name of the architect, who was perhaps exclusively tied to the firm.
How could accurately define the style of this building to both commercial and advertising? The decoration of ceramic and metalwork items belong to the world of Art Nouveau, but its windows are already Art Deco, as the general line of the building. Obviously, the declination of fun because of the tire - and the character who is made - makes the evaluation rather difficult style, but definitely gives the whole an obvious originality Bibendum in the window showing a fancy boxer is really hilarious, that 'he would not miss if you go to Fulham Road.

The house has been fully Michelin map color, the bricks and glazed pottery, which thus give red, yellow, green, blue and white tiles but also "historical", referring to the main motor racing where, no doubt , Michelin tires had to make exploits! These little animated landscapes have a simple grace, enhanced by their plant management, typically Art Nouveau.

From what I understand, the house was deserted places Michelin in 1985. Their transformation into restaurants have thus saved from possible threat of destruction, and maintaining the bulk of the interior, strangely anachronistic for oyster lovers. But obviously it is not surprising that one can not enjoy the French cuisine. Such a place could still become a fast food!

The Michelin House obviously has no relation to Art Nouveau in London. What I have suggested previously on the Modern English Style does not apply to this building, designed by the French and probably built with materials from the mainland. Small scenes of car racing, also captioned in French, have certainly been built by us, perhaps in one of these potteries in the East, so if successful.

PS (10 October 2008): A generous correspondent informs us that the architect François Espinasse be called curiosity. Thank you to him.

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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 18: 115 Charterhouse Street (London - United Kingdom)


Art Nouveau in London is quite a story, original and complicated. Original, first, because the New British Art found a deep seated in the Arts & Crafts movement, who recently - and brilliantly - renewed the decorative arts relying heavily on the long medieval tradition English level forms and iconography, as well as by the spirit. From this point of view, we see that from that side of the Channel, there was never a follower of any break, and artistic development took place always in a constant concern for continuity. The complication, for its part, comes from the shadow cast on the style 1900 by the great exception that represents the modernity of Mackintosh in Glasgow and, for many, just to summarize and represent the Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom .

What has been built in London around 1900 is therefore difficult to appreciate a simple glance. First, it is not very important, and it certainly suffers some continental influence that gives it a nice oddity. We can easily convince ourselves by going to see what remains of the pioneering works of Charles Harrison Townsend (1851-1928)). The Whitechapel Art Gallery, designed in 1895, is unfortunately now partially disfigured, having lost its superb mosaic of Walter Crane. Fortunately remain intact the Horniman Museum, began in 1896. We will not forget to go take a look at the famous fountain in Piccadilly Circus, sculptor Gilbert fantastic representative of the New English Art Sculpture and author of the great tomb of the Duke of Clarence in the chapel at Windsor.

pub "Fox & Anchor" (Fox and Anchor, in French) was sent to me by PM, no information or even a specific address. But still ... It always happens to find information, by taking time. As to the date of this building from 1898, you can read it on the tiles of its pediment, showing clearly and prominently, the famous fox and anchor who gave their name to the place ...

With some subtlety, this facade combines virtuosity with a fairly composite of diverse influences, from the Middle Ages - as represented by the gargoyles, and mullioned windows - and Orientalism - the central window of the first floor. But the crowning ceramic mentions specifically some buildings in Prague and Central Europe more generally. Regarding the details of the decoration, sober and discreet, but ultimately quite lush once it is noticed, it oscillates between a continental influence frankly - the heads of women are almost "Italian" - and style typically English, where flora, highly stylized, complies with the demands of an extraordinarily graphic elegance.
The only view that was sent to me from the inside shows the detail of a beautiful ceramic coating, typically British in tone, brilliant without ever being aggressive. and always with the sense of graphics that can not be English.

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Thurs 2008 - Dispatch No. 17: Villa Sticchi ( Santa Cesarea Terme - Italy)


The few buildings of Arabian influence, already published on the occasion of this game seem to have liked, since AR sent us this impressive villa built in a resort (And thermal) of Apulia, near Otranto. Its name comes from the contractor Oronzo Sticchi, who was the builder, probably also the designer and certainly the lucky recipient.
The building is well before the era of Art Nouveau, it dates from 1885, but is involved in this taste "exotic" that allowed to escape the Academy: Neo-Gothic and Orientalism, by This desire for renewal picturesque, have largely contributed to the emergence of the Modern Style.

The Arab influence allowed the introduction into the architecture Western original forms, but also the color, not only through the ceramic. Blue and ocher, the villa Sticchi play this game completely oriental architecture of fantasy, with its imposing dome, its different galleries with beautiful columns carved differently, the quality of some of its decorative elements. It will be noted in this connection, the beauty of geometric ornaments exterior stairs, the beautiful stone lace covering some panels, the gold-plated from the loggia of the main facade.
Sticchi built the baths of this charming little town, from 1899. It was therefore a personality local, even if AR informs us that his company was still based in Maglie.

Many of these follies have unfortunately disappeared. The Lille region - to make a comparison with France - was literally covered with these strange oriental palaces the now extinct. But elsewhere, there are countless imitations of the palace of Bardo, which was built in the fifteenth century in Tunis, which was one of the main models of this mode, which was always temporary, but cyclical, since the late eighteenth century.