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This Art Nouveau style building, located at 29, avenue Rapp in Paris, was designed in 1900-1901 by architect Jules Lavirotte. The façade is covered with ceramics by the owner of the building, Alexandre Bigot (1862-1927), who worked with most of the great architects of the Art Nouveau style.
The building is considered Lavirotte's masterpiece, its façade was awarded first prize in the competition of façades of Paris in 1901. The jury was impressed by the masterly application of ceramic tiles both on the façade and inside. But the real appeal of this architecture lies in the manifestation of omnipresent sexual imagery.
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