The main decorative theme of the entrance to the building, finished in 1901, is an upside-down phallus; the door handle is in the shape of a lizard, Parisian slang for a penis.
  

The ceramic decorations around the main entrance to 29 avenue Rapp, designed by Jules Joseph Aimé Lavirotte.

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