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The goal of the association “Le Cercle Guimard” is to promote, for a general public as well as the relevant authorities, the architect and decorator Hector Guimard (1867-1942).

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La Grande Tuilerie d’Ivry — Part Four: Muller and Hector Guimard, other achievements.

In this fourth article we conclude to summarize the collaboration between Muller & Cie and Hector Guimard by focusing on the early modernity of Guimard’s models. We also take the opportunity to provide information about the sculptor Timoléon Guérin who was Guimard’s collaborator on several funeral monuments.
Posted le 4 April 2020

La Grande Tuilerie d’Ivry — Part Three: Muller and Hector Guimard, Hotel Roszé and Hotel Jassedé.

In this third article, and then in the next one, we address the collaboration between Muller & Cie and Hector Guimard.
Posted le 27 March 2020

La Grande Tuilerie d’Ivry — Part Two: Muller and Art Nouveau

In this second article we look more precisely at the collaborations between Muller & Cie and the artists and architects of this artistic movement.
Posted le 18 March 2020

The Grande Tuilerie at Ivry — Part One: the Muller company

We are starting a series of five articles dedicated to the ceramist company Émile Muller in Ivry and which will give an overview of his creations in the field of Art Nouveau. In this first article we discuss the history of the company and the variety of its creations.
Posted le 12 March 2020

The Epidemic of Fake Bronze Subway Surrounds in the United States – Part Three: Past and Future

In this third article, we examine the possible origins of the fake subway bronze surrounds that flourished on the American market from the late 1980s. The tracks are multiple but one or two of them are more likely to be the right ones.
Posted le 29 February 2020

The Epidemic of Fake Bronze Subway Surrounds in the United States – Part Two: Other Known Bronze Copies

The open bronze subway surround sold in 2019 by Bonhams in New York City was in fact the fourth fake surround of this nature that we have been informed of, all of which are present on American territory. We present them below in the order in which they came to our knowledge.
Posted le 6 February 2020

Our exhibition
in 2017

At the Hôtel Mezzara