Galería Güemes

The gallery in 1916

The Galería Güemes is a commercial gallery located on Florida Street in the city of Buenos Aires designed in the art nouveau style by Italian architect Francisco Gianotti in 1913.[1]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ Grementieri, Fabio; Böhm, Mimi; Verstraeten, Xavier A. (2005). Buenos Aires: Art Nouveau. BPR Publishers. p. 254. ISBN 9789879811665.
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry lived here in 1931, with a seal in his bathtub. In his room in the gallery, wrote the book Night Flight.
  • Julio Cortázar in his story El otro cielo, included in his book Todos los fuegos el fuego, imagined together the Guemes and Parisian galleries Vivienne, to both circulate the same air, the air they breathe fantasy the two cities of your life.

External links

  • Official site
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