Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard ( born March 10, 1867 in Lyon, † May 20, 1942 in New York City ) was a French architect and designer.

Life

Guimard was one of the most important French Art Nouveau artist, raised the postulate of the inseparable unity of architecture, furniture and decorative accessories. From 1895 a number of houses had arisen in which Guimard was able to realize his ideas. In a folio work (L' Art dans Habitation Moderne of 1898) Guimard documenting the designs and works for his first big order, Castel Beranger, 60 rue La Fontaine, Paris, and places in it also confessional his artistic credo of the organic unity of the architecture and space art dar. Guimard's design will let no element of daily life from, no detail seemed unimportant. So he created, for example for the Eau de Toilette Kantirix for the Universal Exhibition Paris 1900 a bottle.

Guimard was an architect of the synagogue of the Rue Pavée in the Marais, his only sacred building.

Many of the older station entrances of the Paris Métro are still equipped with the designed by Guimard interwoven iron girders.