Entrance to the Porte Dauphine Metropolitain station designed
by Hector Guimard. This work is considered pure Art Nouveau. There were not so
much architectural structures as decorative signs and symbols. The entrance was
constructed out of prefabricated parts of cast iron and glass. There was one
critic who described the entrance as dragonfly’s wings. It has a transparent
canopy and panel "windows" above, and orange paneled walls below,
each panel replicating the same scrolling Art Nouveau pattern that echoes the
ironwork of the frame. There is a combination of imagination and functionally. For
me the entrance looks like a path to a different world. I’m positive that when
people walk in to the entrance there’s a feeling of joy.
Here are some pictures as you enter the Metro Station.
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