Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Apartment Complex rue La Fontaine
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Preferred Title:
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Apartment Complex rue La Fontaine
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Alternate Title:
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Groupe d'immeubles,17-19-21 rue La Fontaine, 43 rue Gros, 8-10 rue Agar
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Image View:
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Detail view of window balustrade, depicting decorative cast-iron
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Creator:
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Hector Guimard (French architect, 1867-1942)
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Location:
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site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Location Note:
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17-19-21 rue La Fontaine, 43 rue Gros, 8-10 rue Agar
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Date:
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1909-1911 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Art Nouveau
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Work Type 1:
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apartment house
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Work Type 2:
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housing project
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone; brick; iron
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Inscription:
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Rue Agar elevation, plaque which reads "A LA TRAGEDIENNE AGAR, QUI HABITA AUTEUIL & PASSY DE 1870 A 1880"
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; Housing; balustrade
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Description:
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Group of seven investment properties built by a private development company with Hector Guimard as a shareholder. One of the intersecting streets was renamed rue Agar in 1912 in honor of the actress (tragédienne) Marie Léonide Charvin, known as Mme. Agar (died 1891). There is a plaque in her honor on the building.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Two
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Identifier:
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1A1-GH-HC-C3
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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