Top: Petit Palais’ Beaux-art façade designed by Charles Girault

 

This post is dedicated to all the beautiful, magnificent, elegant, quirky, stylish, and unconventional doors in Paris. If you haven’t noticed the doors in Paris, then start looking when you are in the city next time. Here is a collection that I have taken over the last few years across different parts of the city.

 

 

 

 

Decorative iron & handles

 

 

 

 

 

There is a vast array of styles including Beaux Arts, Neo-Classicism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco… Some of them are masterpieces that feature outstanding craftsmanship like the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, but personally, I love the Art Nouveau and Art deco ones.

 

 

 

Art nouveau

 

 

 

 

Top: Artists’ atelier at rue Campagne-Première by André Arfvidson; 2nd row: Facade of the Céramic Hôtel, covered with ceramic decoration and sculpture by Camille Alaphilippe

 

 

 

Top left: 36-38 rue Greuze by Hector Guimard; 2nd right: Former central telephone office at 8 rue Jasmin by Paul Guadet; Bottom: Follot’s house at 5 rue Schoelcher by Paul Follot

 

Art Deco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Cool door/gates

 

 

 

Wooden doors

 

 

 

Arabic

 

   

The Grande Mosquée de Paris

 

Street art