From the exhibition
Partial View of Mme Guimard's Bedroom, Hôtel Guimard
Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · 1909

This photograph documents an interior designed by Hector Guimard for the bedroom of his wife at their Paris residence on rue Mozart. The image captures the Art Nouveau aesthetic that defined Guimard's architectural practice: curved drapery swags, elongated furniture forms, and ethereal spatial composition. The shallow depth and sepia tonality preserve the room's soft, refined atmosphere. Guimard, renowned for designing the Paris Métro entrances, extended his organic modernist vocabulary into domestic interiors, where sinuous lines and attentive proportioning created intimate, elegant spaces. The photograph functions as both documentation and design record, typical of early twentieth-century architectural practice.
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