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Hector Guimard

Model GF, Art Nouveau Jardinière

France, circa 1905

GUIMH 01

Description

Patinated iron

Height: 8.25" - Width: 40.5" - Depth: 11.25"

A patinated iron jardinière by one of the most prominent architects and designers of the Art Nouveau style, especially renowned for his designs in this period of the elaborate entrances to the Paris Metro. With this marvelous piece, Guimard embodies the stylized, sinuous dynamism of nature using the tools and materials of an industrial age. 

Bibliography:

-Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 607 
- Société des fonderies de Bayard et Saint-Dizier, Fontes artistiques pour constructions, fumisterie, articles de jardins et sépultures – style Guimard, commercial catalog, Paris, 1907. Same model featured on plate 41. 

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