Paris Métro entrances by Hector Guimard: Difference between revisions

[[File:Métro Père Lachaise sous la neige 01.jpg|thumb|350px|Winter view of the Guimard entrance to the [[Père Lachaise (Paris Métro)|Père Lachaise]] Métro station, in the [[11th arrondissement of Paris|11th arrondissement]]]]

 

Three of the entrances took the form of free-standing pavilions or small stations,<ref name=19th/> including waiting rooms: one at [[Bastille (Paris Métro)|Bastille]] and two on [[Avenue de Wagram]] at [[Charles de Gaulle–Étoile (Paris Métro and RER)|Étoile]]. These were in a style influenced by Japanese pagodas. At Étoile Guimard provided exterior doors for elevators, although the elevators were not built.<ref name=Ovenden25/> Eight simpler but still elaborate structures, labeled "Édicule B" by Guimard, were installed at the termini of Line&nbsp;1 as originally opened and at two other major stations. These consisted of three-sided glass-roofed structures enclosing the stairway, with a projecting canopy.<ref name=Ovenden25/><ref name=RV889>Rheims and Vigne, pp. 88–89.</ref><ref>''Édicule'' has a broader meaning in French than Latin ''[[Aedicula]]''; it is sometimes used for all the Guimard Métro entrances, not only for those with roofs.</ref> A variation on this format, "Édicule A", lacked the canopy and was erected at two stations, [[Saint-Paul (Paris Métro)|Saint-Paul]] and [[Reuilly – Diderot (Paris Métro)|Reuilly – Diderot]].<ref name=Ovenden25/> These ''édicule'' types of entrance, which have come to be called ''libellules'' because they resemble [[dragonfly|dragonflies]], in some cases had decorated wall panels surfaced in reconstituted [[lava]].<ref name=RV889/> The great majority of the entrances built (154) were unroofed enclosures, dubbed an ''entourage''. A transitional form between the ''entourage'' and the ''édicule'', railings with a roof and canopy, was used for one entrance at the [[Gare de Lyon (Paris Métro)|Gare de Lyon]] métro station.<ref>Ovenden, pp. 25, 26–27.</ref>

 

 

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* The [[Dalí Theatre and Museum|Dali Theater Museum]] in [[Figueres]] (Girona, Spain) has a pair of the light stalks from a Guimard Métro entrance, which are exhibited on the patio.<ref>[https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/the-collection/84/streetlights-from-the-paris-metro-design-by-hector-guimard "Streetlights from the Paris Metro, design by Hector Guimard"], Dalí Theatre and Museum, retrieved February 9, 2021.</ref>

 

File:GuimardMon.JPG|[[Square-Victoria-OACI station|Square-Victoria-OACI]], Montreal

File:Die U-Bahnstation von Bellas Artes.jpg|[[Metro Bellas Artes|Bellas Artes]], Mexico City

File:Kievskaya-entry.jpg|[[Kiyevskaya (Koltsevaya line)|Kievskaya]], Moscow

File:Van Buren Street station entrance.jpg|[[Van Buren Street station|Van Buren Street]], Chicago

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