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Musée des Années 30
Metro: Marcel Sembat
Follow Avenue André Morizet and you will come to the Musée des Années 30 on your right at No. 28. This interesting museum was founded in 1998 in the Espace Landowski, an arts complex named after a sculptor who lived in the area from 1905 until his death in 1961. Several of Paul Landowski’s works are on show in the complex which also includes a library and a cinema. The museum contains 800 paintings, 1,500 sculptures and 20,000 drawings, as well as furniture, ceramics and posters all dating from the 1930s. It also hosts temporary exhibitions.
Musée des Années 30
Rue la Fontaine
Metro: Michel-Ange-Auteuil
The rue la Fontaine runs through a fashionable part of Paris and contains some of the city’s most extraordinary early 20th-century architecture. No. 14 is Castel Béranger, or more commonly known as Castel Déranger (which means deranged), a stunning Art Nouveau apartment building designed by Hector Guimard using cheap materials to keep the costs as low as possible. Nicknamed the House of Devils because of its swirling figures, it established the architect’s reputation and he went on to design the iconic entrances for the Paris metro.
Consisting of 36 apartments, the building’s façade features redbrick, enamel tiles and red and white sandstone. The windows are arranged in a highly irregular pattern, while the metalwork is one of the building’s most beautiful and striking features, especially on the balconies and over the entrance. The painter Paul Signac lived here. There are a number of other examples of Guimard’s work on the street, including the Hôtel Mezzara at No. 60.
Foundation Le Corbusier
Metro: Jasmin
Walk up rue Jasmin and turn right onto rue Raffet, then right again onto rue du Docteur Blanche and the Foundation Le Corbusier will be on your right down the laneway at Nos. 8–10 Square de Docteur Blanche. Housed in the Villas La Roche and Jeanneret – the first two houses built by Le Corbusier in Paris, the Foundation was established in 1968.
Le Corbusier, or Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, was an immensely influential Swiss architect who lived and worked in Paris for most of his life. He was a
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