Paris by Metro
by Georgia Clare
Title
Paris by Metro
Artist
Georgia Clare
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A fine art photograph of an iconic metro sign from Paris. There are only two of these art nouveau Metropolitain signs left in the city but it is instantly recognizable as Parisian. This is the Porte Dauphine in the 16th arrondissement. Here is what the Independent said a couple of years ago:
'Much has already been lost. An estimated 180 station entrances were constructed of wrought iron to the designs of the architect, Hector Guimard, starting with the first Metro line in 1899. Of these, only 86 remain. His most ambitious design - a fan-shaped arch of wrought iron and glass, described as "like a dragonfly opening its wings" - was used at 20 different sites. Most fell victim to the modernising ravages of the 1960s and 1970s, and the destruction was halted only in 1978, when all Guimard entrances were declared historic monuments. Just two of the arches, or pagodas, survive, at Porte Dauphine in the 16th arrondissement and at Abbesses, near Montmartre.'
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July 19th, 2012
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