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| Essential Architecture- Paris Hotel Guimard House for Marie-Madeleine Guimard, Paris, 1773-6 | |
architect | Claude Nicolas Ledoux |
location | Paris, France |
date | 1770, now demolished |
style | NeoClassical |
construction | cut stone |
type | Hotel |
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| Elevation, composed of a double height coffered niche screened by four Ionic columns. The figure sculpture resting on the entablature of the portico represents Terpsichore, the muse of dancing, an appropriate choice as Guimard was a dancer at the Paris Opera | |
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| Plan, showing the small private theater on the second floor of the gate house | |
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