The Galería Güemes is a commercial gallery located on
Florida Street in the city of
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
designed in the
art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
style by Italian architect
Francesco Gianotti in 1913.
Gallery
File:Galería_Güemes_San_Martin_Entrance.jpg,
File:Galería Guemes.JPG,
File:Galería Güemes (hacia Florida).JPG,
File:Techo abovedado del pasaje Güemes.jpg,
File:Buenos Aires - Galería Güemes 352.jpg,
File:Galeria_Güemes_sobre_Florida.JPG,
File:Buenos Aires - San Nicolás - Techo de la Galería Güemes.JPG,
References
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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''.
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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
Vivian (and variants such as Vivien and Vivienne) is a given name, and less often a surname, derived from a Latin name of the Roman Empire period, masculine '' Vivianus'' and feminine '' Viviana'', which survived into modern use because it is the ...
, to both circulate the same air, the air they breathe fantasy the two cities of your life.
External links
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Buildings and structures in Buenos Aires
Tourist attractions in Buenos Aires
Commercial buildings completed in 1913
Art Nouveau architecture in Buenos Aires
Art Nouveau retail buildings
1913 establishments in Argentina