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Art Nouveau's smiling façades

"Noodle art" challenged the heavy 19th-century style...

by its asymetry, its use of "vulgar" materials such as ceramics, brick and steel...

and its humor.

 

 

 

The walk takes us through some of the city's loveliest residential districts.

 

Our guide is a former UNESCO executive and editor of Museum International (a UNESCO publication). He has often written on the monuments and heritage of Paris. As well, he is bitingly funny,

 

His Art déco tour is as instructive.

 

 

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Photo Claude Abron

 

 

Unexpected Paris guided tours