Hôtel Roszé (1er édifice conservé d’Hector Guimard)

The Hôtel Roszé features a facade of rough-hewn stone and asymmetrical windows that look like they were carved by hand rather than measured with a ruler. When Hector Guimard designed this building in eighteen ninety-one, he was a young architect testing the boundaries of classical French tradition. He broke the rigid symmetry expected of Parisian townhouses, creating a jagged, restless rhythm across the front. It remains the first house he designed that still stands in its original form today.