Door of the Month: 40 Cour d'Albert 1er

My friend Jean-Christophe Nicolas told me about this Lalique door a while ago and I finally remembered to check it out. It turns out the building was built by architects Louis-Eugene and Albert Feine for Rene Lalique to live in with his family in 1902. Lalique designed the gorgeous door with etched pine cones and pine branches. I also love the detailing of the iron work on the balconies. The location is in the upscale 8th arr. facing the Seine, near the Ave. Montaigne and George V.

40 Cour d'Albert 1er, 8th. arr.
Metro: Alma-Marceau

 

New Tour Announcement

I am happy to announce a very special one-time tour opportunity. My friend and loyal blog fan Mary Gilbert and her close friend Phil Nuxhall both from Cincinnati, are coming to Paris the beginning of April. Phil is the Historian and Tour Coordinator for the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati where Mary is a docent. They are both longtime cemetery enthusiasts.

We are co-leading a tour of the lovely Russian Cemetery in Sainte Genevieve Des Bois just outside of Paris where Rudolf Nureyev is buried in a mosaic-encrusted sarcophagus along with other famous Russian expats and after we will visit the striking modern Evry Cathedral, the only 20th century church in France, built in 1992, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta.

We would love for you to join us for this fascinating and unusual tour and we are accepting reservations for 10 people. Below are the particulars. If you would like to register for the tour please email me at [email protected] and I will email you further instructions.

Tour: Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois and Evry Cathedral
Date & time: Friday, April 3, 1PM to approx. 5:30PM which
includes travel time
Cost: 40 euros a person not including train fare- approx. 10 euros
Meeting place: St. Michel metro

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Comments

[barbara]

This has to be one of my favorites ever. Great pics, great job! Love this door! I'm going to go see it when we get there,

[linda]

This door is too beautiful for words!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Happy spring!

[John Wiecking]

Extraordinaire!

[Yuriy]

As practically everywhere in this city, almost every street, corner or building stirs up exciting historical memories and events, and Rene Lalique's townwhouse (aka Hôtel Lalique) is not an exclusion. The original address was 40, Cours la Reine (this is now renamed Cours Albert, but the street number remains the same). Lalique moved there ca. 1902. Before 1908 the Belle Époque's legendary operatic singer Emma Calvé lived there (French Wikipedia). The mysteruously charismatic world most famous woman spy Mata Hari danced for her there (See Janet Flander’s Paris was Yesterday 1929-1939 (A Harvest/HBJ Book, New York 1972, p. 124).