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Guimard.(Books About Antiques)(Hector Guimard, Architect Designer 1867-1942)(Book Review)
The Magazine Antiques; Mar 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words Hector Guimard, the French master of art nouveau...Ferre, photographer, collaborated on Hector Guimard, Architect Designer 1867-1942. They begin: "Any book on Hector Guimard must either begin or end with an elegy...
NOUVEAU RICH.(architect Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau designs reproduced on wallpaper)(Brief Article)
House Beautiful; Jul 1, 2000; ; 457 Words Architect Hector Guimard's arched cast-iron entrances to...of Modern Art. Slyly psychedelic, Guimard's eddying pattern predates the Pucci...Imagine," says curator Peter Reed, "if Guimard had access to plastics!" 800-347...
Hector Guimard
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 437 Words Hector Guimard , 1867-1942, French architect and furniture designer. Influenced by...French architect of art nouveau. The most familiar landmarks created by Guimard (c.1900) are the entrance gates to the métro (subway...
Hector Guimard.(On the shelf: there's something for every bookworm on your Christmas list)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
House Beautiful; Dec 1, 2003; ; 475 Words With Hector Guimard (Delano Greenidge Editions, $85), the work of the architect and designer most famous for his swirling Art Nouveau Paris Metro...
Books.(The Week Ahead: Album, Hector Guimard: Architect, Designer (1867-1942))(Brief Article)
Design Week; Nov 27, 2003; 530 Words ...400 colour photographs of all genres. The book is published by Mitchell Beazley, priced 35 [pounds sterling]. Hector Guimard: Architect, Designer (1867-1942) combines Felipe Ferre's photographic project with text by Georges Vigne...
A haven in Paris: Terry and Jean de Gunzburg make an inspired space for art and life (seven children, to be exact) on the Right Bank.
Town & Country; Oct 1, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...1891 by Art Nouveau visionary Hector-Germain Guimard at the tender age of twenty four...Eytan, six), the two-bedroom Guimard house shouldn't even have been...entryway. "The house was a Hector Guimard folly, but inside it was pure...
Paris Metro signs saved for art's sake
The Independent - London; Jul 7, 1999; ; 665 Words ...the designs of the architect, Hector Guimard, starting with the first Metro...halted only in 1978, when all Guimard entrances were declared historic...bluey-green for street sites. Guimard entrances have not always been...
Paris gives Chicago touch of Belle Epoque
Chicago Sun-Times; May 13, 2001; ; 560 Words ...the turn of the 19th century by Hector Guimard. It's a gift from the city of...system have been synonymous with the Guimard entrances-sinuous ornaments of...creeping tendrils. Chicago's Guimard will have an arch about 18 feet...
Paris gives Metra a charming French accent Art Nouveau Metro entrance adds classy touch to Boul Mich
Chicago Sun-Times; Dec 19, 2001; ; 649 Words ...entrance was molded from designs by Hector Guimard, a premier Art Nouveau artist...are important landmarks built in Guimard's era. Louis Sullivan, who...architectural preservationist, pushed the Guimard idea in 1999 to the Union League...
School of boarding: Yolanda Zappaterra goes globe-trotting in search of hotels and guest houses to inspire even the most jaded creatives. (The Week Ahead).(Architectural gems welcome vacationers)
Design Week; Aug 29, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...Horta and his biggest French fan Hector Guimard have disappeared, but a trip to...Horta's influence is evident in Guimard's Metro entrances, but if they...more you can probably sneak into Guimard's light-filled Castel Beranger...
Review: The Arts: It's all so drop-dead decadent Art
The Sunday Telegraph London; Apr 23, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...with the installation of one of Hector Guimard's famous Metro archways and a...most cities as an anomaly; but Guimard's Metro entrances are as inseparable...shop-displays. At the V & A, Guimard's Metro piece is staged like...
Exuberant, excessive, indulgent
The Spectator; Apr 15, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...Parisian Metro station entrance by Hector Guimard. To beetle - that is, to hang...juste in more than one way, since Guimard's lamps, lit a vivid red, are...the pantechnicon-full, but the Guimard Metro entrance is the only large...
Metro's Chance to Make A Grand Entrance; Cityscape
The Washington Post; Jul 29, 2000; ; 700+ Words In the late 1890s Hector Guimard, a blossoming young architect, received...Though controversial at the time, Guimard's art nouveau designs, fashioned...gets hammered for it. In 1890s Paris Guimard's designs were controversial because...
A designing world.(Editor's Letter)
JQ; Mar 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...Nouveau, the famed metro stations of Paris. Designed by Hector Guimard, born in 1867 in Lyon, France, they were considered...Practices section. Further south, in the home city of Hector Guimard, the beautiful and historic Lyon was also the location...
What's Old Is New Again.(Art Nouveau: 1890-1914)(Brief Article)
Insight on the News; Nov 13, 2000; ; 700+ Words From Hector Guimard's entrances to the Paris subway to Frank Lloyd Wright's furniture...designed between 1907 and 1910. Robust, ornate metalwork, such as Hector Guimard's entrances to the Paris subway, was very much a product of the...
Orange, Brown lines rerouted on October weekends
Chicago Sun-Times; Oct 6, 2001; 700+ Words ...moulds designed by Art Nouveau-style French architect Hector Guimard for hundreds of Metro stations in Paris. The gate...the club, which came up with the idea of bringing a Guimard-designed Metro in 1999 as a way to commemorate the...
Remake for New York's street furniture
International Herald Tribune; Jan 15, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...city. When we see the graceful Art Nouveau ironwork of Hector Guimard's Metro canopies, we think of Paris, and of London...they're neither as distinctive, nor as evocative. Guimard's ironwork typifies Paris's flair for modernizing...
FRYE'S `SPIRIT OF ART NOUVEAU' EXPLORES LIFE WORK OF MUCHA.(Entertainment)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); May 27, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...are the Parisian Metro stations designed in 1900 by Hector Guimard. The famous, undulating curves of the Metro arches...famous practitioner. (Even without the Metro stations, Guimard might well hold the title thanks to his magnificent...
A Jew in Paris
Jerusalem Post; Mar 2, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...synagogue in the Pletzl. Built in 1914, it was designed by Hector Guimard, the Art Nouveau architect famous for Paris Metro's green vegetal archways. Guimard's American wife was Jewish and with the rise of Nazism...
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ART NOUVEAU EUROPE
The Independent - London; Nov 10, 2007; 700+ Words ...Nouveau design with which people are most familiar is that of the distinctive Parisian Metro entrances created by Hector Guimard. Designed to enhance the experience of a journey on the French capital's new underground railway, the cast-iron...
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