{"id":767,"date":"2006-08-03T00:51:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T23:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=767"},"modified":"2008-06-30T00:13:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T23:13:38","slug":"paris-v-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/03\/paris-v-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris V: Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final Paris posting here, gathering up more of the better photos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/door.jpg\" id=\"image760\" alt=\"door.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walk down any residential street and you&#8217;ll see amazing doors like this that lead to the courtyards of apartment blocks. All the decorations are different, as are the brass door-handles emblazoned with human or animal heads. You could spend months photographing them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/eglise.jpg\" id=\"image761\" alt=\"eglise.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Eglise St. Severin in the marvellously narrow Rue St. Severin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fountain1.jpg\" id=\"image763\" alt=\"fountain1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Fontaine St. Michel by Duret (1860).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fountain2.jpg\" id=\"image764\" alt=\"fountain2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And one of the fountain&#8217;s great griffins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/eiffel.jpg\" id=\"image762\" alt=\"eiffel.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The filigree splendour of the Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/metro1.jpg\" id=\"image765\" alt=\"metro1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another high spot: finally seeing one of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hector_Guimard\" target=\"_blank\">Hector Guimard<\/a>&#8216;s Art Nouveau M\u00e9tro entrances.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/metro2.jpg\" id=\"image766\" alt=\"metro2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a contemporary equivalent by Jean-Michel Othoniel for the Palais Royal entrance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The entrance on Place Colette was redesigned by Jean-Michel Othoniel, as the &#8220;Kiosque des noctambules&#8221; (Kiosk of the night-walkers), and completed in October 2000 for the centenary of the M\u00e9tro. Two cupolas of the &#8220;Kiosque des noctambules&#8221; (one representing the day, the other the night), made of glass beads coloured and threaded on a structure of aluminium, make an unexpected and original work in the very traditional environment of the Place Colette.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Paris posting here, gathering up more of the better photos. Walk down any residential street and you&#8217;ll see amazing doors like this that lead to the courtyards of apartment blocks. All the decorations are different, as are the brass door-handles emblazoned with human or animal heads. 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