65 avenue Henri Martin
Spectacular porch: huge canopy with two large hanging lanterns. The marquee is surmounted by a very imposing bearded and helmeted man’s head.
9bis rue de Presbourg
Formerly the Hôtel Mercedes, this important Art Nouveau building occupies the square between avenue Kléber, rue de Presbourg and rue Lauriston. All the decorative elements, staples and modillions, illustrate the theme of the automobile: here are a few interesting sculptures. Architect Georges Chedanne. Sculptors Edgar Boutry, Paul Gasq, François Sicard. 1902
20 rue de Longchamp
Art nouveau style. Two mermaids frame a boat’s prow ending in a sort of dog’s head. A rope and an anchor hang from each side of the hull. On the 1st floor, the left and right windows are surmounted by a Gorgon framed by two dolphins. Architect Emile Bainier. Sculptor Jean Ringel d’Illzach. 1898
30 rue Galilée
Porch adorned with two sheathed caryatids. Two lions confront each other on either side of the medallion adorning the center of the door’s lintel. Beneath the entablature above the lintel, an inscription describes the attitude of the two caryatids: « Weary of vain hopes and earthly noises, happy to forget, one has closed her eyes… In her first morning, unafraid of mystery, the other aspires to life, smiling at the heavens! » Architect Paul Sedille. Sculptor André-Joseph Allar. 1895
124 avenue Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo lived and died in this building during the last years of his life. His face is carved on the lintel in the thinker’s pose. His head is surrounded by laurel branches. Lion heads adorn the window frames. Architect P. Humbert. Sculptor Fonquergne. 1907
39 avenue Victor Hugo
Oak leaf decoration above the door. This decoration is repeated throughout the facade of this beautiful Art Nouveau building. Architect Charles Plumet. 1913
66 avenue Victor Hugo
Very pretty female profile in a scalloped cartouche.
186 avenue Victor Hugo
A phenix stands atop the door. Architect A. Durville. 1892
178 avenue Victor Hugo
Strange juxtaposition of a male mascaron typical of a bourgeois building and a mosaic sign. Architect F. Gaillard
119 rue de Longchamp
Curious lintel in the shape of a basket of flowers and a female mascaron.
60 avenue Victor Hugo
Rare, delicately carved service door top with this female face surrounded by 3 children’s faces.
1 rue Greuze
Neo-Gothic style. Two small monkeys support the pinnacles framing the gable.
16 rue Greuze.
Another neo-Gothic facade with this gable supported by two small figures: the one on the left holds a musical instrument and the one on the right holds an open book. Architect D. Evrard. 1893
4 square Lamartine
Rounded basket handle door. Large lintel decorated with birds perched on vines. Beautiful ironwork on the door. Architect Charles Labro
5 et 7 square Lamartine
Twin Art Deco buildings adorned with Egyptian masks.
Sundial at the corner of Square Lamartine and Avenue Henri Martin
40 avenue du Président Wilson
Art nouveau. Very meticulous decoration, both for the frame and for the door itself, with its delicate ironwork. The branch motif is repeated at the bottom of each door jamb. Two female profiles stand out against a background of olive branches in the spandrels. Architect Auguste Bluysen. Sculptor Rispal
48 avenue Raymond Poincaré
Art nouveau. Smiling, delighted female mascaron, gazing to the right, framed by a garland of roses that runs the length of the doorframe. Architect C. Adda. 1908
50 avenue Poincaré
Two sheathed caryatids support an entablature at the center of which is the head of Hercules wearing the headdress of the Nemean lion. The whole is very neo-classical.
18 rue Dufrenoy
Door frame with bosses and garlands of flowers and fruit.
78 rue Boissière
A door with a highly charged eclectic decor. Note the crocodile and the fantastic animal, a sort of shaggy capuchin, adorning the brackets supporting the transom frame. Architect: L. Sergent. 1897
10 boulevard Flandrin
Clasp adorned with a coat of arms featuring a ship and a star, inscribed in a cartouche.
99 rue de La Pompe
Rounded door with small rounded window on the side. This door has twin sisters: 4 rue Benjamin Godard in the 16th arrondissement and 7bis rue Damrémont in the 18th arrondissement.
52 rue Spontini
A ram’s head adorns the clasp above the door.
4 rue Verdi
A bird is profiled on the left clasp to feed the bird in the nest to the right of the clasp above the door, on oak branches. Two large cartouches and two vases adorn the façade. All feature birds: a couple, a couple with chicks, birds on a branch. Architect Ernest Picard. Sculptors Frères Cochi (Cochi Brothers).
18 rue Magdebourg
Lion’s head, mouth open, on a cartouche surrounded by foliage.
15-17 avenue Paul Doumer
A rooster surmounts the door of this Art Deco building.
1bis place de l’Alma
A woman’s face smiling mischievously, with foliage all around.
Other doors of interest:
| 59 avenue Raymond Poincaré | Art nouveau. Beautiful pine cone motif on the door hardware. The motif is repeated very lightly on the frame and higher up on the facade and balconies. Charles Letrosne |
| 104 avenue Raymond Poincaré | Wrought iron door with gilding |
| 11 rue des Sablons | Important earthenware door frame with a roaring lion’s head above the door. |
| 11 rue Galilée | Rocaille-style porte cochère. Mascaron representing Hercules wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, surrounded by oak leaves. |
| 22 avenue Foch | Le Phenix insurance company building. Phenix in mascaron |
| 36 rue Greuze | Double curved door. Last building built by Hector Guimard. 1923 |
| 45 rue Emile Menier | Triangular pediment interrupted to make way for a bull’s eye surrounded by lush vegetation and topped by a female mascaron. Beneath the bull’s eye, two crouching children face each other, each holding a bird. Architect Gabriel Morice. 1902 |
| 30 avenue d’Eylau | Attractive female sculpture, full of movement, above the entrance door. This building adjoins 28 avenue d’Eylau by the same architect, Albert Tournaire, whose facade is decorated with sculptures evoking La Fontaine’s fables. |
| 90 avenue Henri Martin | Two large female figures flank the doorway, looking at each other. They may be upright, but they’re not rigid: one raises her arm above her head, the other holds a large straw hat. Architect Charles Labro. 1907 |
| 3 square Mignot | Art Deco lintel: two children with a ram, one clinging to the fur, the other clutching a horn. |
| 5 square Mignot | Art Deco lintel: two children with a ram, one half-lying on the ram, the other at its side. |
| 34 rue Scheffer | Lintel: 3 children dance holding hands, one plays a pipe. |
| 36 rue Scheffer | Art déco. Bas-relief above the door showing three children dancing. One of them plays the flute. |
| 55 rue Scheffer | Art déco. The facade of this late 19th-century mansion was remodeled in 1930 by René Herbst. The stained glass windows and doors are by Louis Barillet. They depict horses (a theme dear to the owner at the time, Princess Aga Kahn) and elephants. The railing in front of the door is reminiscent of the liner architecture that was very much in vogue at the time. |
| 64 avenue Kléber | Faun’s head surmounted by a shell |
| 72 avenue Henri Martin | Swallows against a background of vine shoots. Architect Charles Labro |
| 8 avenue Alphand | Art nouveau. Rounded lintel showing a nude woman reclining in a languid pose surrounded by flowers. Architect Théo Petit. 1905 |
| 9 avenue Bugeaud | Beautiful ironwork with grape basket motifs. The door is surmounted by a Bacchus with a mouthful of grapes. |
| 143 rue de La Pompe | Door topped with a very imposing rocaille style cartouche. Architect Charles Genuys. 1900 |
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