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Architecture with a smile-Parisian Art Nouveau-More and more astonishing buildings (part3) (courtesy Arthur Gillette)

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At the end of the av. Poincaré, here is the large square du Trocadero, surrounded by all these buildings you all know, like the Palais de Chaillot and others. On the right side of the Palais Chaillot, where the Musée de l'Homme is situated, cross the small garden "Yorktown square".

The Signatures

It's easy now to look up the rue Benjamin Franklin, where an interesting façade is waiting for us at no.25 bis, with its beehive of glass, lozenges, and above all, leafy glazed cladding. This house, created in 1903, can be considered well ahead of its time, since it shows already signs of Art Deco. Notice the signatures of the architect, Auguste Perret and the ceramist, Alexandre Bigot at the bottom of the right hand door.

39, rue Scheffer

Take now the rue Scheffer to the right, cross the avenue Paul Doumer, and hold at no. 39. Just a brief halt to see this house ignored Victor Horta's injunction and kept both the steel tendrils and flowers in stone.
Make a left in rue Louis David, another left in rue de la Tour, (at 62, lacy steelwork on the upper storey's balcony), make a right in the av. Paul Doumer, and a left (cross the av. Paul Doumer), into the rue Eugene Manuel. At no.2 we stand in front of a frustrating house! Frustrating? Yes, indeed, the front door is a see-through, a pressing invitation to get in and you can't!!But look at the beautiful (unfortunately faded) ceramics by Emile Muller and writhing steel.
The street continues in the rue Claude Chahu where you should note the wrought-iron balcony at no.8.
If you're not limited in time, make a left into the rue de Passy, cross the place de Costa-Rica and engage in the boulevard Delessert. At nos.19 and 19 bis, sister apartment houses that show Art Nouveau metalwork, stone vegetation and -overall-a kind of contradiction: harmony and asymmetry.
Turn back to the place de Costa-Rica and enter now the rue Raynouard.

5, rue Chernoviz

As soon as you see rue Chernoviz on your right side, take this street. Here you can smell and see this new style (for that epoch), Art Nouveau taking form at nos.3, 5 and 11. Particularly the door of the no.11, with its wrought iron pattern somewhere between a heart and a fountain.
This should be the end of the first part of this Art Nouveau voyage in the 16th arr. The second part of this genuine guided tour will be for later.

If you'd like a complete text and map in a nice, folded brochure, mail to Armedv@aol.com . You can order each one or all of his 9 strolls.

Bibliography (Architecture with a smile, Parisian Art Nouveau, stroll no. 9, by Arthur Gillette, publ. Media-Cartes)

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