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Art Nouveau in London

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L'ART NOUVEAU DE LONDRES 

Suivez notre guide Tom Bogdanowicz lors d'une visite des trésors artistiques cachés de la capitale

À LA DIFFÉRENCE DE PARIS, Bruxelles et Vienne, Londres n'est pas connue pour ses bâtiments et sculptures Art Nouveau exubérants. Mais cela ne signifie pas que nous n'en avons pas — il suffit de savoir où chercher. Et cette balade urbaine, par Tom Bogdanowicz, auteur du London Cycling Guide, révèle quelques chefs-d'œuvre cachés dans la capitale.   Les racines de l'Art Nouveau remontent au mouvement britannique Arts and Crafts du XIXe siècle (de nombreux exemples dans la section de Kensington de la balade) qui reflétait la philosophie du Londoniens John Ruskin et du Français Viollet-le-Duc. Il rejetait la standardisation du classicisme et mettait en valeur l'architecture gothique et l'artisanat. L'héritage se retrouve dans des bâtiments et des sculptures distinctifs, avec des formes et des façades non symétriques, et, dans l'incarnation de l'Art Nouveau, marqué par des lignes sinueuses, des courbes et des décorations florales sinueuses.

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1 h 33 min
Durée
23,4 km
Distance
215 m
Montée
221 m
Descente
15,2 km/h
Vit. moyenne
38 m
Altitude max.
Nigel Jones

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Points forts de l’itinéraire

Points d’intérêt le long de l’itinéraire

  1. Point d'intérêt après 1,9 km

    THE BLACK FRIAR. 1905 (Herbert Fuller-Clark) Thanks to an intervention by poet Sir John Betjeman and others, we can still enjoy the extraordinary interiors as well as the exterior of the Black Friar pub which was going to be demolished in the 1960s. The interiors illustrating jolly monks and friars singing and carousing were re-modelled by Herbert Fuller-Clark with work by individual sculptors, while the mosaics on the outside are credited to Henry Poole. The pub overlooks the very popular North-South cycleway from Elephant & Castle to Kings Cross.

  2. Point d'intérêt après 4,6 km

    Orchard House You have only to look at the work of master tiler WJ Neatby to recognise Art Nouveau. The vibrant colours, the curves, the whiplashes, the floral (and culinary) extravagance are all there. Neatby was not, however, an architect and the houses he decorated, like the Fox and Anchor, and Orchard House, follow more conventional Victorian forms. Harrods' food hall is a tiling tour de force and Neatby was also responsible for the decorative exterior tiles.

  3. Point d'intérêt après 8,5 km

    MICHELIN HOUSE (Francois Epinasse) The famous piles of tyres and Michelin Man, 'Bibendum', are widely known across London. The celebration of the French tyre maker is evident right across the building that is impossible to classify as to style, but would not likely have been built without the popularity and acceptance of Art Nouveau in Paris and elsewhere. Epinasse was an engineer at Michelin and is only known to have designed one other building: the Michelin offices in Paris. The building here was bought by two affluent fans, Terence Conran and Paul Hamlyn and restored and developed as a gourmet restaurant and office space.

  4. Point d'intérêt après 9,3 km

    12-16 HANS ROAD. 1891 (Charles Voysey & Arthur MacMurdo) Macmurdo's woodcut for the cover of the first publication of the Art Workers' Guild that he founded is credited as the first known example of the Art Nouveau 'whiplash' motif. His buildings did not adopt the motif, but he introduced the early horizontal windows in the Modern style, a trope that became the trademark of fellow Arts and Crafts influencer Voysey. Voysey may be the most influential architect you've never heard of. The two (early) townhouses in Hans Road are not typical of his style, but the low mansions faced in white rough concrete became de rigueur for thousands of 1930s semis — and some argue that his minimalism was a stepping stone to modernism.

  5. Point d'intérêt après 9,7 km

    HARRODS' FOOD HALL. 1903 (WJ Neatby) You have only to look at the work of master tiler WJ Neatby to recognise Art Nouveau. The vibrant colours, the curves, the whiplashes, the floral (and culinary) extravagance are all there. Neatby was not, however, an architect and the houses he decorated, like the Fox and Anchor, and Orchard House, follow more conventional Victorian forms. Harrods' food hall is a tiling tour de force and Neatby was also responsible for the decorative exterior tiles.

  6. Point d'intérêt après 10,6 km

    ALL SAINTS CHURCH, 1892 (C H Townsend) Townsend's three masterworks are all in London (the Horniman Museum in Dulwich is not on the ride) and are all iconic buildings built in what is called Free Style'. The Bishopsgate Institute has turrets decorated with intricate foliage and friezes that reflect Art Nouveau. The Whitechapel Gallery was due to have a pre-Raphaelite central frieze by artist Walter Crane but the money ran out. All Saints church is an early work with intricate Arts and Craft sgraffito inside.

  7. Point d'intérêt après 14,4 km

    QUEEN ALEXANDRA MONUMENT Outside St James's Palace shows Alfred Gilbert's affection for Art Nouveau. Gilbert designed the sculpture as his swansong after being re-admitted to high society following a period Of debt and rejection

  8. Point d'intérêt après 15,4 km

    Eros George Gilbert falls most clearly in the Art Nouveau category. Eros, or correctly Anteros his brother, in the middle of Piccadilly Circus is his best known work

  9. Point d'intérêt après 18,6 km

    Fox and Anchor You have only to look at the work of master tiler WJ Neatby to recognise Art Nouveau. The vibrant colours, the curves, the whiplashes, the floral (and culinary) extravagance are all there. Neatby was not, however, an architect and the houses he decorated, like the Fox and Anchor, and Orchard House, follow more conventional Victorian forms. Harrods' food hall is a tiling tour de force and Neatby was also responsible for the decorative exterior tiles.

  10. Point d'intérêt après 20,6 km

    BISHOPSGATE INSTITUTE (C H Townsend) Townsend's three masterworks are all in London (the Horniman Museum in Dulwich is not on the ride) and are all iconic buildings built in what is called Free Style'. The Bishopsgate Institute has turrets decorated with intricate foliage and friezes that reflect Art Nouveau. The Whitechapel Gallery was due to have a pre-Raphaelite central frieze by artist Walter Crane but the money ran out. All Saints church is an early work with intricate Arts and Craft sgraffito inside.

  11. Point d'intérêt après 21,5 km

    WHITECHAPEL GALLERY (C H Townsend) Townsend's three masterworks are all in London (the Horniman Museum in Dulwich is not on the ride) and are all iconic buildings built in what is called Free Style'. The Bishopsgate Institute has turrets decorated with intricate foliage and friezes that reflect Art Nouveau. The Whitechapel Gallery was due to have a pre-Raphaelite central frieze by artist Walter Crane but the money ran out. All Saints church is an early work with intricate Arts and Craft sgraffito inside.

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