A detailed photocopy of a model facade of a 7-story apartment building. At the very top of the print there is text in a sinewy, angled block-letter font that reads IMMEUBLE DE RAPPORT CONSTRUIT A PARIS/ AVEC LES FONTES DE ST. DIZIER, which translates in English to INVESTMENT PROPERTY BUILT IN PARIS / WITH THE FONTS OF ST. DIZIER. Beginning from the second story up, there are three sets of windows per floor, with triple oblong fenestration in the center and double oblong fenestration on the left and right. Each set of windows is framed by grand molding. Beginning from the third story up, each set of windows has a very ornately designed balcony railing characteristic of the sinewy, criss-crossing, ornamental style of art nouveau. The first and second stories do not have balconies, but the there are smaller art nouveau railings still detailedly illustrated in front of each fenestration. The oblong double front door contains an ornamental, sinewy, piping design. Very small text inscribed under the rendering at bottom right reads: Papier, Gravure, et Impression L. Geisler. Inscribed on the other side of the print in graphite a hand-written script reads: This illustrates different castings designed by Hector Guimard/ and made commercially available through the “Catalog Guimard”.

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1925	Work on this object began.
1950	We acquired this object.
2012	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
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Photostat, Rendering of the Elevation of a Facade of a Proposed Apartment House

This is a Photostat. It was architect: Hector Guimard. It is dated ca. 1925 and we acquired it in 1950. Its medium is photostat on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard.

A black cast-iron balcony railing with two symmetrical, ornamental panels. Two sinuous, curving bars of iron drop down from the center top of each panel and curve into a looping, oblong design towards the bottom, joined by two additional curving bars that snake towards the center bottom from each side of each panel.

Balcony Balustrade, Model GI
cast iron.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt,....
2011-28-1

Poster, Le Havre, Patrimoine mondial de l’humanité [Le Havre, World Heritage of Humanity]

Poster, Le Havre, Patrimoine mondial de l’humanité [Le Havre, World...
screenprint.
Gift of Philippe Apeloig.
2013-16-1

Its dimensions are

53 x 34.2 cm (20 7/8 x 13 7/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed at top in black ink: IMMEUBLE DE RAPPORT CONSTRUIT A PARIS/ AVEC LES FONTES DE ST. DIZIER At bottom right: papier, Gravure, et Impression L. Geisler Inscribed on back in graphite: This illustrates different castings designed by Hector Guimard/ and made commerically available through the "Catalog Guimard

Cite this object as

Photostat, Rendering of the Elevation of a Facade of a Proposed Apartment House; Architect: Hector Guimard ((French, 1867–1942)); France; photostat on paper; 53 x 34.2 cm (20 7/8 x 13 7/16 in.); Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard; 1950-66-55

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Cedz/
Accession Number 1950-66-55
Object ID 18384989