Adolphe Dervaux

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CMP “Dervaux” candelabra , Alma - Marceau metro station
Access to Madeleine der Nord-Sud station with the ABRI sign (shelter) in the war year 1918

Adolphe Dervaux (born May 2, 1871 in Paris ; died November 1945 ) was a French architect.

Dervaux attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and later the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . One of his teachers was the architect Émile Vaudremer . Later Dervaux was president of the Société française des urbanistes . Among other things, he designed the Palais Consulaire in Sète and the reception building of the Gare de la rue Verte (today: Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite) in Rouen .

Dervaux is famous as the designer of numerous entrances to stations of the Paris Métro . He designed the entrance areas of the subway stations of the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (Nord-Sud) and from 1921 also those of the competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP). His distinctive Art Deco- style candelabra can still be seen at numerous metro stations. Often his designs replaced - in whole or in part - Art Nouveau decorations created by Hector Guimard , which were no longer considered modern from around 1910.

The typical Dervaux candelabra for the CMP consists of an iron post on which a red sign that can be illuminated from the inside rests horizontally with the words METRO. A spherical, framed and crowned lamp sits enthroned at the top. The candelabra are usually on the railing framing the stairwell, on one side or (less often) on both sides of the top step.

Dervaux deliberately developed the access to the north-south as an alternative to those of the CMP. Instead of the tangled, sinuous style of Guimard's lamps and railings, he preferred simpler, clearer shapes. The labels NORD-SUD and NORD SUD were changed to METROPOLITAIN after the takeover of Nord-Sud in the 1930s.

  • Palais Consulaire in Sète

  • Facade of the Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite train station

  • Access to the former north-south, Pigalle metro station (Métro Paris)

  • North-south entrance of the Saint-Georges station

  • Dervaux candelabra at an entrance to the Pont Neuf station built by CMP

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ancien Palais Consulaire at pss-archi.eu, accessed on August 20, 2017
  2. ↑ Loïc Vadelorge: Rouen sous la IIIe République . Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, ISBN 978-2-7535-0035-8 , pp. 120 .
  3. ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 91 .
  4. ↑ Julian Pepinster: op. Cit. , P. 106.
  5. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 74 .
  6. ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 68 .
  7. ↑ Mark Ovenden: op. Cit. , P. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Dervaux, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 1945