Here we have the most intriguing & frenzied amongst the 1900 architects : he covers his buildings with a sexual & often disgusting symbolism... He was the first to protect whole fronts with gigantic ceramic tiles, as we can see on his block of flats avenue Rapp &, most of all, the Ceramic Hotel on the avenue de Wagram (1904). He won 3 times the Concours de façades de la ville de Paris but deviated from Art Nouveau ca. 1907, while imitators were coarsely betraying a style they pretended to serve. Unlike them, Lavirotte tried to explore new ways of building (he died prematurely without achieving his career the way he could have), remaining a disconcerting & out-standarded artist.

His main Art Nouveau buildings are almost all located in the same parisian block, thus it's easy to see how he forged & matured his style.