Guimard built with cut stone as well as his characteristic brick, for which he here used a low-contrast shade, and although the fenestration is highly irregular (including a corner window and characteristic lanterns above a long balcony on the top floor), the ground-floor and top-floor windows on the main façade are symmetrical, so the building is more redolent of the eighteenth century than his earlier more or less fantastical houses.

[2] The small corner lot imposed a triangular shape on the house but made internal load-bearing walls unnecessary, and to save space, he did not include a main staircase, installing a lift instead.

[2] Guimard also designed the interior decoration and the furniture, for which he used pear wood; the dining-room chairs feature interlaced initials 'O' and 'G',[3] as does the table linen.

[2] After the architect's death in 1942, his wife offered the house and its contents to the French state.

[1] The dining room suite can today be seen at the Petit Palais;[4] the bedroom at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon; the study at the Musée de l'École de Nancy;[3] and other furnishings are at the Cooper Union and Museum of Modern Art in New York.