Art Nouveau and Art Déco mosaïc , tiles and ceramic works .

mardi 21 janvier 2025

Pavilion




 The Verdurier pavilion was built in 1919 in Limoges by Roger Gonthier, architect of the Bénédictins train station. It is an octagonal building,  built in reinforced concrete and decorated with mosaics and porcelain stoneware by the famous Gentil & Bourdet company in Boulogne Billancourt close to Paris.






 It was originally  intended for the refrigerated storage and sale of meat imported from Argentina. Having  then become a covered market, it was transferred to the municipality two years after its construction and in 1942  operated as a bus station until the 1970's



samedi 28 mai 2022

Museum

 




  The interior of the Adrien-Dubouché ceramics museum  in Limoges, built between 1895 and 1900, shows a mosaic floor from  the Guilbert-Martin workshop,located  in Saint-Denis near Paris.

mardi 28 avril 2020

Kerylos

Further views of Villa Kérylos is  built in the early 1900s by French archaeologist Theodore Reinach, and his wife Fanny Kann.(reconstruction of an ancient Greek  house),







  Private shower!  In the nearby" ampelos", Mrs Reinach's bathroom, an amazing open-air shower. A clever faucet system allows three jets: rain (kataxysma), running water (krounos) and circle (perkyklas). 1530 circular jets for liters of happines.... if the user understand greek...




samedi 17 août 2019