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...former is the entrances to the subway system he designed for Bilbao in northern Spain: hoods of glass, like segments of a nautilus shell ribbed with stainless steel that curve downward and carry the eye to the spaces underneath--by far the most elegant subway entrances since Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau designs for the Paris Metro a century...
...still hopes to complete a novel on Lorenzo the Magnificent, which he has been researching for more than a decade. In his book The Straw and the Grain, he wrote, "If I had the time, I would write the history of the rivers I have known." Journalist Paul Guimard calls him "a great writer." Literary Critic Bertrand Poirot-Delpech rates him with Léon Blum and De Gaulle as the most literary of French politicians: "Each phrase of Mitterrand, even spoken, bears the mark of someone who has never ceased to read the great writers, to scribble, to scratch...
...life of art nouveau was short, about two decades; its climax was the turn of the century, in 1900. But in that brief time the look of Western capitals-and especially their bourgeois interiors-was utterly transformed by architects led by Victor Horta and Hector Guimard, designer of the Paris Metro entrances; poster artists like Privat Livemont and Alphonse Mucha; designers of jewelry like René Lalique; glassmakers and ceramists like Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallé and Felix Bracquemond. A new style of luxury art, the last great mannerism, had been found. Because of a hostility to "applied...
...turn of the century, European taste makers found themselves caught up in the snaky tendrils of a self-conscious style called art nouveau. Not only candlesticks and furniture, but whole buildings were designed to flow with floral grace. From the Paris Métro stations of Hector Guimard to the décor of Maxim's, symmetry was out, organic flow was in, and nothing from the insect or aquatic world was too exotic. La Belle Époque lasted little more than a couple of decades (1880-1905), but in that brief span produced a series of small masterpieces...
Blake & Botany. Before it got its final name, the French called it Moderne, the Spanish Modernismo, the Germans Jugendstil. Architect Hector Guimard, who designed Paris elaborate Metro stations, blandly called it the Guimard Style. To some irreverent critics of the day, it was also the Tapeworm Style. In Art Nouveau's orchidaceous world of tendrilar lines, sweeping forms and bright stained glass, old Japanese woodcuts, the drawings of William Blake and a new fascination with botany all had their influence...