Hôtel Jassedé, Art Nouveau residential building in Auteuil, France
The hôtel Jassedé is a residential structure in the Art Nouveau style, designed by Hector Guimard in the early 1890s. Its facade combines stone, brick, and plaster with geometric patterns and asymmetrical forms that depart from traditional balanced design.
Hector Guimard designed this residence in 1893 when he was around 25 years old, marking one of his earliest major projects. The building gained official protection as a historical monument in 1980, ensuring the preservation of its early modern design.
The house is also called villa Jassedé, after Louis Jassedé, the grocer who commissioned it near his shop. Guimard designed chairs for it whose cantilevered legs were drawn from Viollet-le-Duc; some of these seat drawings survive. The building is a private residence and cannot be visited.
The building sits on Rue Chardon-Lagache in Paris's 16th district and is visible from the public street. The exterior details are best viewed during daylight hours when natural light brings out the geometric patterns and surface textures.
Guimard designed seats for the house whose cantilevered legs were directly inspired by drawings of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc; some sketches survive. The building also escaped the 20th-century demolition wave that destroyed more than half of Guimard's works, and its facades and roofs were restored in 2014 by heritage architect Sébastien Cord.
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