Collectors say creation of museum honouring Hector Guimard, who died in 1942, will right a historic wrong

Fans say opening of museum honouring Hector Guimard, whose work went out of fashion, will right a historic wrongThe “forgotten” designer of Paris’s most iconic Métro station entrances and art nouveau buildings is to be given his rightful place in the city’s history with a museum dedicated to his work.Hector Guimard left a distinctive mark across the French capital in the early 1900s, creating elaborate and monumental Métro entrances whose fans of iron and glass resembling unfurled insect wings were nicknamed dragonflies. Continue reading…