Art Nouveau and Art Deco architecture in the 16th arrondissement

Starting point and access: Michel-Ange-Molitor station.
- Metro - Lines 9, 10. Take the only exit.
- Bus - Line 62.

The main places and buildings to see are indicated in italics in the body of the description.

(S) Upon exiting the metro station, turn around and follow Rue Molitor towards the Saint-François Church and Jean Bouin Stadium. Take the^first left onto Rue Erlanger. At the traffic lights, cross Boulevard Exelmans in two stages and follow it to the left. Take the^first right onto Rue Michel-Ange. At^{No. 77bis}, you will find the birthplace of Pierre Brossolette. Then turn left onto Rue Claude Lorrain and walk past the entrance to Auteuil Cemetery.

Take the^first right onto Avenue de la Frillière. At No. 11, you will find a school built in 1895 under the supervision of architect Hector Guimard. At the end, turn left onto Rue Parent de Rosan (two private villas on the left). At the end, turn left onto Rue Boileau. At the crossroads, continue straight ahead along the pedestrian section of this street. You will come out onto Boulevard Exelmans. Turn right and follow the road (at no. 39, you will see Atelier Carpaux, dating from 1895 and designed by Hector Guimard).

(1) At the traffic lights, turn left to cross Boulevard Exelmans again. Continue along Rue Chardon-Lagache and take the^first left, Rue de Musset. At the end (former Gustave Eiffel aerodynamics laboratory), return to Rue Boileau and follow it to the right. Pass in front of the Vietnamese Embassy (No. 60) and the Algerian Embassy (No. 40). Cross Rue Molitor and pass in front of Boileau's former home (No. 26).

At the next intersection, turn left onto Rue d'Auteuil. Opposite a small triangular square, turn right and then right again onto Rue Jean de La Fontaine. Take the^first right onto Rue Bastien Lepage. At the crossroads, continue straight ahead, slightly to the right, into Rue Leconte de Lisle (at no. 33, gate with atalanta and caryatid). Immediately turn left into Rue des Perchamps. At the fork (opposite, Art Deco building from 1929-1932), continue right into Rue des Perchamps. At the end, rejoin Rue La Fontaine and follow it to the right for a few metres.

(2) Then turn left onto Rue George Sand. At the traffic lights, cross Avenue Mozart and Rue de la Source, then go up Rue Henri Heine. Walk past the former Auteuil telephone exchange on your right and cross Rue Jasmin. Pass in front of a building designed by Hector Guimard in 1926 (No. 18) and then buildings designed by Jean Boucher in 1925 (Nos. 24 and 26).

At the end of the street, turn left and head for the entrance to Square du Docteur Blanche at^{no. 53bis} on the street of the same name. If it is open (private road), you can visit the Le Corbusier Foundation at the end of the square. Turn back to the intersection with Rue Henri Heine and continue straight on along Rue du Docteur Blanche. Cross Rue de l'Yvette on the right-hand side and you will come to the entrance to Rue Mallet-Stevens.

(3) Turn right into this cul-de-sac to admire the reinforced concrete buildings, all designed by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. Retrace your steps.

(3) Continue along Rue du Docteur Blanche until you reach Rue de l'Assomption and turn right (Notre-Dame church on your left). Shortly before a traffic light, turn right under a porch and, at the fork that appears shortly after, turn right between the shops. You will come out onto Rue Serge Porkofiev. Go around Place du Préfet Claude Érignac in either direction and join Avenue Mozart.

Cross the avenue at the pedestrian crossing and continue straight ahead on Avenue Adrien Hébrad. Go around Place Rodin on the left (sculpture of the artist in the centre) and take the^second exit, Avenue du Général Dubail. At the end, you will find Rue de l'Assomption (Lycée Molière opposite on the left), follow it to the right and then turn right onto Avenue Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou. At the end, follow Avenue du Recteur Poincaré to the left.

(4) At the traffic lights, turn left onto Rue Jean de La Fontaine. At No. 14, walk past the Castel Baranger, an Art Nouveau building designed by Hector Guimard and built between 1895 and 1899. At the crossroads, cross Boulevard de Boulainvilliers and follow Rue Raynouard. Walk past the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique on your right , designed by architect Henry Bernard and inaugurated in 1963. Cross Rue du Ranelagh, go up and take the^second left, Rue des Vignes.

Then turn right onto Rue Alfred Bruneau. Cross Place Chopin and continue straight ahead onto Rue Lekain. At the end, turn right onto Rue de l'Annonciation. On the left, walk past a round building and then the Church of Notre-Dame de Passy, whose tympanum is decorated with a representation of the Annunciation.

(5) At the end, you will come to Rue Raynouard. Turn right and walk past the house of the writer Honoré de Balzac, which is below on the left. Then walk between numbers 51 and 55, past a building designed by the architects Auguste and Gustave Perret. At the corner of this building, go down the steps on the left. At the bottom, turn left onto a cobbled street and walk past the building you saw earlier. After the end of the wall of Balzac's former property, the street narrows.

At the end, continue straight ahead onto Avenue Marcel Proust. At the corner of No. 14, climb the steps on the left, Avenue du Parc de Passy. At the top, turn right onto Rue Raynouard. Note Square Raynouard at No. 20, designed in 1913 by architect Albert Vêque, and between No. 17 and No. 13, an Art Deco building designed in 1931 by architects Marcel Julien and Louis Duhayon. Immediately afterwards, descend a narrow staircase street on the right, Rue des Eaux. At the bottom (at No. 12, a building designed by François-Adolphe Bocage in 1911), turn left and you will immediately reach the entrance to Square Charles Dickens.

(6) If the gate is open (depending on the Wine Museum's opening hours), go through it for a brief exploration of the square, which ends in a dead-end staircase. Retrace your steps.

(6) Upon exiting the square, continue straight ahead on Rue des Eaux (at No. 5, an Art Nouveau building from 1913 designed by Albert Vêque). Turn left at the^{first street}, Square Alboni. Pass under the elevated metro line and, immediately after, you have two options:
- Take the escalator on the left, pass the entrance to the underground station and take a second escalator.
- As shown on the map, continue straight ahead and then turn left twice to go up the block with Square Alboni.

In both cases, you will come out onto Rue Marietta Alboni. Follow this street, either straight ahead if you took the escalators or to the right if you stayed in the square. Note the "lantern" buildings from 1899, all designed by architect Louis Dauvergne. At Place du Costa-Rica, turn right onto Boulevard Delessert. Between nos. 17 and^11bis, you will see buildings from 1910 to 1913 designed by architect Alebert Sélonier.

(7) Immediately afterwards, go down a stairway street on the right, Rue Beethoven. At the bottom (at No. 7, a building of artists' studios from 1913, designed by architect Georges Thirion), turn left onto Rue Chardin. At the end, turn left again onto Rue Lenôtre. Then cross Boulevard Delessert, follow it to the left for a few dozen metres and climb the stairs on the right, Avenue de Camoëns. At the top (beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower when you turn around), continue along a pedestrian street.

You will come out onto Rue Benjamin Franklin. Cross at the pedestrian crossing and follow the street to the right. At No. 25, you will see a building designed by Pierre Humbert in 1904, and at^{No. 25bis}, a building designed by Auguste and Gustave Perret in 1903. When the street splits into two branches, stay on the left-hand side, which is paved. Cross Rue Vineuse on the left, then Avenue Paul Doumer. Turn right at the foot of the Passy Cemetery wall, pass a metro entrance on the right and arrive at Place du Trocadéro.

(8) Turn left to quickly reach the monument to the soldiers of the First World War, created in 1956 by the sculptor Paul Landowski. Retrace your steps.

(8) Cross Boulevard Paul Doumer again, turn left and walk past the entrance to the Musée de la Marine and the Musée de l'Homme. Then turn right and cross the Esplanade des Droits de l'Homme for a beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower and the Seine. Retrace your steps, turn right at the foot of the Théâtre de Chaillot and you will immediately reach the Trocadéro metro station (E).

To return home:
- Metro - Lines 6, 9.
- Bus - Lines 22, 30, 32, 63.

Good trainers are sufficient for this urban route.

There are numerous bars, restaurants and shops along the route.

Detailed map required (at least the one accompanying this description).

Hike completed by the author on 26 November 2022.

General information on the Art Nouveau (late 19th-early 20th century) and Art Deco (1920-1940) artistic movements.

The main buildings characteristic of these two architectural styles are mentioned in the description itself, without any claim to exhaustiveness.

Opening days and hours of certain places that can be visited:

Auteuil Cemetery:
- Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.; Saturday: 8.30 a.m.; Sunday: 9 a.m.
- Closing time: 6:00 p.m.

Le Corbusier Foundation: Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Maison de Balzac: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Wine Museum: Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Maritime Museum: closed for renovation until further notice.

Musée de l'Homme: every day except Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.