{"id":11996,"date":"2012-09-11T02:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T01:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2012-09-11T02:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T01:31:29","slug":"rue-st-augustin-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/11\/rue-st-augustin-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Rue St. Augustin, then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boutique art nouveau, 45 rue st. Augustin (2e arr, 1904\u201305).<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite being reasonably familiar with Eug\u00e8ne Atget’s celebrated photos of Paris, this picture of a very elaborate Art Nouveau fa\u00e7ade is something I’d not seen until now. The photo is part of the George Eastman House collection of Atget prints<\/a>, and is unusual for showing a very contemporary shopfront. Atget generally preferred premises redolent of an older, pre-Haussmann Paris, like the window full of barometers at Au Griffon, 39 Quai de l\u2019Horloge<\/a>. The Rue St. Augustin fa\u00e7ade is an especially baroque example of Art Nouveau excess with a flying fish, a large butterfly (or moth) supporting the window, and the ubiquitous fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> female floating above it. Naturally I had to know if the decor had survived but a quick look at Google Maps<\/a> revealed the mundane scene below. The apartment entrance next door is pretty much unchanged but the wine shop that’s there now shows no traces of its delirious past.<\/p>\n

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Boutique art nouveau, 45 rue st. Augustin (2e arr, 1904\u201305). Despite being reasonably familiar with Eug\u00e8ne Atget’s celebrated photos of Paris, this picture of a very elaborate Art Nouveau fa\u00e7ade is something I’d not seen until now. The photo is part of the George Eastman House collection of Atget prints, and is unusual for showing … Continue reading “Rue St. Augustin, then and now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,58,51,4,12],"tags":[1822,136,1207],"class_list":["post-11996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-nouveau","category-cities","category-design","category-photography","tag-eugene-atget","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-hector-guimard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-37u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}