
World's Columbian Exposition
(Chicago World's Fair)
1893

Full & Half bricks
Photo: Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen

Green Accent Brick

Square briques at Maison Bergeret
Photo: Cédric Amey
Paris:

25 bis rue Franklin

36 rue de Tocqueville
Photos: Le mateur
Swiss National Museum, Zurich:

Negative# COL-6951

Negative# COL-6953
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The most extraordinary installation of Falconnier briques I've seen so
far are at the Castel Béranger,
#14 Rue La Fontaine, Paris, France, designed by architect
Hector Guimard in 1898.
This wild, Art Nouveau structure's crazy mix of styles earned it
the nickname Castel Dérangé, but I'd say it's genius—
and some call it Guimard's masterpiece. His use of Falconnier's briques
for innovative decoration instead of plain function earn him the #1
spot in this gallery. These photos are all taken by, and appear
here courtesy of Vincent Lajoinie, who debuted them on his
Paris Archis
(Paris Architecture) blog.
Pavel Trtik reports from the Czech republic of this excellent installation
of Falconnier #8s and #9s at a hotel in spa Luhacovice, designed by architect
Dušan Jurkovic
in 1902. The octagonal structure is a stairwell. Full-size images can be
found on Pavel's Dušan Jurkovic site
here.

In 1898, the Maison Mumm built their new champagne cellars at Reims. The
façade's main door was ornate metal surrounded by Falconnier bricks,
which are now sadly gone. The two photos below are from period postcards,
and the photo to the right by Jacques Mossot was taken March of 2008
and appears here courtesy Structurae.
Taco Hermans of the Netherlands Department for Conservation
provided the following scans and photos:
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Wassenbergh villa in the north of The Netherlands, ca 1905-1910 |
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| Inside View w/Dora & Marinus |
Outside View, 1905 |
Outside View, ca 1910 |
| Former School for Navigation in Rotterdam (Pieter de Hoochstraat 3), built in 1916; photos 2006 |
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Taco reports: "The windows are situated in a wall between
two toilets of which one has a window and the other gets light from that
window through the glass bricks."
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| Unused, empty factory in Huy, Belgium with random emerald green briques |
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| Taco visited the Huy (Hoei) factory, took this new set
of pics, and retrieved some briques. The installation was even more
important than the first pictures indicated: it has very unusual red
bricks which appear to be colored with a coating on the inside, patterned
windows on the upper floors, mixed windows of different type bricks,
and has briques from a different manufacturer: Etablissements Gaston
Blanpain-Massonet of Bruxelles, whose variation on the #8 pattern (with
more concentric circles) is in a nice light rose glass. The factory has
suffered at the hands of vandals, and many briques are missing or damaged.
Hopefully what's left can be preserved!
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| The much less common #9 pattern are used in the basement window
of this building in the village of Alblasserdam (Cortgene 127). Taken by a
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| This amber half-brique sold on eBay to an unknown museum in
France. The photos are from the auction, reproduced here courtesy the
seller, Didier Leroy.
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| This blue No. 8 brique was won on eBay and is currently in
my collection. The photos here are courtesy the seller, Sebastian Brösel.
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| This fantastic cobalt blue No. 7 brick was also won on eBay.
A rare color and a rare style-- what a beauty! The photos are from the
auction, reproduced here courtesy the sellers, Marie & Rodrigue Balaiz.
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