Hector Guimard - Timeline

Timeline

  • 1882 Guimard enters the École des Arts Décoratifs at Paris with Charles Genuys as his teacher.
  • 1885 Guimard begins studying at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.
  • 1888 Café Au grand Neptune (quai d'Auteuil, 16th arrondissement de Paris).
  • 1889 Guimard designs the Pavilion of Electricity at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.
  • 1891 Guimard becomes professor at the École des Arts Décoratifs. He remains there until 1900.
  • 1891 Designs the Hôtel Roszé (rue Boileau, 16th arrondissement of Paris)
  • 1894 Designs the Hôtel Jassedé (rue Chardon-Lagache), Hôtel Delfau (rue Molitor), and the funerary chapel of Devos-Logie and Mirand-Devos in the cimetière des Gonards at Versailles. Guimard first meets Belgian Art Nouveau architect Paul Hankar.
  • 1895 Builds the Atelier Carpeaux (boulevard Exelmans, Paris), and the École du Sacré Cœur. First meets Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta. Beginning of construction on the Castel Béranger (rue La-Fontaine, Paris).
  • 1896 La Hublotière au Vésinet.
  • 1897 Guimard moves into an apartment building. Casa Coillot.
  • 1898 Completion of the Castel Béranger which is called "deranged" by contemporaries.
  • 1899 Villa Bluette (Hermanville, Calvados).
  • 1900 Maison Coilliot (14, rue Fleurus, Lille); design of the entrances, buildings and lettering of the stations entrance of the Paris Métropolitan.
  • 1901 Salle Humbert-de-Romans (Paris); Castel Henriette (rue des Binelles, Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine).
  • 1903 Castel Val (4, rue des Meulières, Auvers-sur-Oise); Villa La Sapinière (Hermanville).
  • 1904 Castel Orgeval at Villemoisson-sur-Orge; Hôtel Léon Nozal (16th arrondissement of Paris); Chalet Blanc (2, rue du Lycée, Sceaux); Castel Orgeval (2 avenue de la Mare-Tambour, Villemoisson-sur-Orge).
  • 1905 Hôtel Deron Levet, Chalet Blanc (Sceaux).
  • 1909 Immeuble Trémois, rue Agar; Guimard marries Adeline Oppenheim and they move into the Hôtel Guimard on a triangular lot on the Rue Mozart, Paris.
  • 1910 Hôtel Mezzara (60, rue La Fontaine, 16th arrondissement de Paris)
  • 1913 Synagogue de la rue Pavée à Paris (10, rue Pavée, in the 4th arrondissement de Paris); Villa Hemsy (3, rue Crillon, Saint-Cloud).
  • 1924 Villa Flore (avenue Mozart, 16th arrondissement de Paris).
  • 1926 Apartment building (rue Henri Heine, Paris).
  • 1928 Apartment building (rue Greuze, Paris)--this is widely believed to be Guimard's last work as an architect.
  • 1938 Guimard and his wife move to New York.

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