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The picture shows the furniture from the bedroom of the Hôtel Guimard, reconstructed at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.
The set of Art Nouveau bedroom furniture was designed from 1909 onwards by the Lyon-born architect Hector Guimard for his new wife, the American artist Adeline Oppenheim. They married in 1909, and the same year he bought a site at 122, Avenue Mozart in the 16th arrondissement of Paris to build a three-storey hôtel particulier, or mansion. When the site was sold in 1948, Madame Guimard gave the bedroom furniture to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the desk to the musée de l'École de Nancy and the dining room furniture to the Petit Palais, Paris.
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