The most beautiful doors in Paris

The door of the season:
Winter 2024/2025

Stunning door with two ogee-shaped ironworks above the door leaves, giving it a false twin-door look. The lintel is flanked by two pairs of small consoles sculpted with small, bearded, moustachioed male busts.

Mini Serie #6
Loving Art déco

To celebrate the centenary of Decorative Arts, Une Journée à Paris presents its latest find: a seemingly demure door at 31 rue de Buci in the 6th arrondissement, whose unexpected drapery disrupts an otherwise impeccably balanced arrangement of refined, understated simplicity. And to continue with that subtle twist that sometimes enlivens the Art Deco style—undeniably elegant yet prone to feeling flat in its regularity and purity of line—here are a few highlights:

– a « wicker basket » effect in the door frame of decorator and ensemble designer Paul Follot’s private mansion (definitely worth a look inside) at 5 rue Victor Schelcher in the 14th arrondissement
– a nesting of geometric forms at 41 rue Gros in the 16th arrondissement, featuring a faceted curve set within a rectilinear frame
– the door of sculptor Quivillec’s studio, adorned with the statues Audierne and Ploaré in homage to his native Brittany

To locate these easily and discover more, select the Decorative Arts layer on the Doors and Facades map.

Fresh news!

Where’s the cat?
It’s cold, it’s raining, the games in the playground are wet, it’s too late to find an activity for the day… How can you keep children occupied when they can’t stand being cooped up at school or at home? Choose the Bestiary layer on the interactive map and set off with them in search of the animals that populate the doors and facades near you. Dogs, cats, lions and birds – you didn’t know it, but you’re living in a zoo! Find my old Fresh News here. I promise I’ll write more!

Door to door walks

From La Muette to Auteuil (16th district): This walk takes you on a 4 km loop in the 16th district. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
From République square to Bastille square: 2 Km walk. Duration: 1/2 hour

More than 600 doors identified!

Une Journée à Paris helps you better enjoy your Parisian walks by showing you more than 500 doors and facades of Parisian buildings.
Click on Doors and facades map and zoom in on the neighborhood you want to discover! Doors and facades are classified by style and type of decor, each being the subject of a layer (see the list of layers below).
You can therefore select the layers that interest you.
List of layers:
Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Atlanteans and caryatids, Beautiful doors, Bestiary, Neo Gothic and Neo Renaissance, Cabinet of curiosities, mythology, marine theme.
The Belles portes layer brings together doors judged subjectively beautiful but which do not correspond to a style or type of decor. The name of Cabinet de curiosités hides around twenty doors selected for their unclassifiable character, the originality of their shape or their decor. There are so many gems to discover, each more surprising than the last.

Doors and façades per district (number of doors)

Doors and facades selected for their originality or their emblematic character of an era or style.
The Doors and facades map is exhaustive as it displays every doors and facades identified.