A drawing of an elevation view of the facade of a narrow apartment building rendered in graphite on yellowed tracing paper. Across the top of the paper the designer/architect identifies the name of the project in a stylized angular typeface. No. 7 is written on the upper right side connoting the 7th iteration of the design, hence the need of tracing paper. An enclosed letter 'C' in a circle is notated on the upper left side. The left and right edges of the paper are cut unevenly and increase in width to accomodate the length of the title, written in pen and black ink, which is wider than the width of the building. The cut paper resembles the characteristics of a Doric column from Greek architecture. The facade is divided into four materials. Unadorned sheets of material are drawn on the building's facade from the ground level to the first floor windows. The entrance door is centered with a wide arch made of three rows of brick located above the door. To the right of the door lies a window that reaches to the the height of half the door with two panes of glass and an arched top edge. The apartments begin on the first floor where rough stone is indicated until the middle of the second floor. Elongated horizontal parallel planks are suggested from the second floor until the seventh. While the facade material on the eighth floor reverts back to the unadorned material used on the ground floor. The facade is divided into four columns with a different style of window in each column. The design in the first column on the left employs side by side design of a narrow vertical rectangular shape. In the center column the windows are original designs and have the graceful diagonal movement displayed in Art Nouveau. The two elongated rectangular windows are placed where the one on the left is lower than the right. There are two smaller windows of an organic shape atop each rectangle. The window shapes resemble lipstick cylindars at different stages of use. The arches composed of three rows of brick that gradually stretches to the right following the edge of the rise of the window's height. The apex of the arch is above the window on the right so the end of the arch floats into the facade. There is a modified version of the window on the eighth floor. The design possesses the center of the first design and the heights are the same. The designer gives a nod to Greek architecture by the use of a pediment above the window. To the right is another window with a side by side window design. The next column of windows are the same design as seen in the central column however in between the two windows are the side by side rectangular design that we find in the first column. The arch becomes more dramatic because of it's elongated stretch across four windows. The fourth column of windows are one small narrow rectangle that is wedged between the third column of windows and the edge of the building's facade. Finally the roof is flat and bears a fence of narrow posts.

This object is currently on display in room 202 as part of Hector Guimard. There is one other image of this object. See our image rights statement.

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Object Timeline

1909	Work on this object began.
1911	Work on this object ended.
1950	We acquired this object.
2012	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2022	We exhibited this object.
2023	You found it!

Drawing, Elevation of an Apartment Building, Société Immobilière, rue Moderne (now rue Agar)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Hector Guimard. It is dated 1909–11 and we acquired it in 1950. Its medium is pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Madame Hector Guimard. It is credited Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard.

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 57.8 × 39.2 cm (22 3/4 × 15 7/16 in.) Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)

It is signed

Signed with monogram, in black ink, upper right: "G" in double circle

It is inscribed

In black ink, above: SOCIETE IMMOBLIERE DE LA RUE MODERNE/RUE MODERNE 4/ NO. 7; below inscription on left in black ink is a g placed within a double circle.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Elevation of an Apartment Building, Société Immobilière, rue Moderne (now rue Agar); Designed by Hector Guimard ((French, 1867–1942)); France; pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper; H x W x D: 57.8 × 39.2 cm (22 3/4 × 15 7/16 in.) Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.); Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard; 1950-66-11

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hector Guimard.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CebV/
Accession Number 1950-66-11
Object ID 18384893