Hôtel Guimard: dining room
by GUIMARD, Hector, Pear wood
In May 1909, shortly after his marriage to the American-born painter Adeline Oppenheim, Hector Guimard bought a plot at 122, avenue Mozart and built a fine townhouse.
The building included the architect’s office on the ground floor, which reached through a reception gallery. The first floor consists of a dining room and sitting room in the shape of an ellipse; the third floor was a studio for Madame Guimard. Guimard designed the entire interior: panelling, cornicing, furniture, locks, light fittings and furnishing fabrics. The furniture and panelling are made of pear wood whose soft grain and luminosity are particularly suited to the elegant lines of Guimard’s design style.
Madame Guimard sold the townhouse in 1948. She donated the bedroom furniture to the Mus�e des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, the study to the Ecole de Nancy Museum and the dining room to the City of Paris.