Fine Arts Exhibition
Fine Arts Exhibition🪦Look for the shroud-like horizontal grooves
🎨Guimard's stylistic breakthrough after the Jassédé tomb
📍Small cemetery in Bléré, Loire Valley
Hector Guimard's first Art Nouveau tomb is a quiet revelation in stone. The architect carved horizontal grooves into the monument to mimic the soft folds of a burial shroud, a radical departure from conventional sepulchral design.
Art Nouveau architecture
Historic cemetery
Guimard masterpiece
19th century design
Fine Arts ExhibitionFine Arts Exhibition🪦Look for the shroud-like horizontal grooves
🎨Guimard's stylistic breakthrough after the Jassédé tomb
📍Small cemetery in Bléré, Loire Valley
Hector Guimard's first Art Nouveau tomb is a quiet revelation in stone. The architect carved horizontal grooves into the monument to mimic the soft folds of a burial shroud, a radical departure from conventional sepulchral design.
Art Nouveau architecture
Historic cemetery
Guimard masterpiece
19th century design