Hôtel Mezzara: exterior view

This private mansion, one of the interesting buildings by architect Hector Guimard, is located at 60, rue Jean-de-La-Fontaine in the district of Auteuil in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

Guimard designed the building in 1910 for Paul Mezzara (born in France in 1866), an artistic personality, vice-president of the Society of Decorator Artists. Thanks to a plot of land with a garden at the back, acquired near the Castel B�ranger which made the architect’s fame fifteen years earlier, the H�tel Mezzara reflects the evolution of Guimard’s style. Far from the wild character of the beginnings, now mellowed and elegant, this matured style remains faithful to the constructive principles laid down since 1899. On the street side, the cut stone is used sparingly while Guimard gives pride of place to the discrete silico-limestone brick. While fa�ades and interior spaces show a real decorative refinement, their cost is mastered by the architect who built up a repertoire encompassing all the objects of the architectural decor.

He has created an impressive range of ornamental fonts, hardware, door handles and cremones, decorative artefacts, mirrors, fireplaces, wall coverings, etc. He was able to equip interiorly and externally any architectural program from a modest apartment to a mansion.