Émile Joseph Molinié (1 June 1877,

La Rochelle La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle''; oc, La Rochèla ) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. With ...

– circa 1964) was a 20th-century French architect. The son of

Henri Deglane Henri Deglane (22 June 1902 – 7 July 1975) was a French wrestler. He was an Olympic Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling and AWA World Champion. In May 1931, Deglane faced Ed "Strangler" Lewis for the AWA World Heavyweight Champion ...

, occasional collaborator of

Charles Nicod Charles Henri Nicod (28 January 1878, Levier, Doubs - December 1967) was a French architect active in the period between the two World Wars. He was the winner of the Prix de Rome in 1907. His works include the Hotel Majestic in Cannes C ...

, rather active in

Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions I ...

, he was made a Chevalier of the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

in 1926.

Creations

* 1913: ateliers for artists, 7 rue Lebouis,

14th arrondissement of Paris The 14th arrondissement of Paris ( ), officially named ''arrondissement de l'Observatoire'' (; meaning "arrondissement of the Observatory", after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. It is situa ...

, nowadays headquarters of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain. In 1913, the façade was awarded at the

concours de façades de la ville de Paris The concours de façades de la ville de Paris was an architecture competition organized by the city of Paris at the very end of the 19th century. History The contest was held annually between 1898 and the late 1930s, with an interruption during W ...

. * 1914: building at 43 rue Émile-Ménier,

16th 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, ...

, this building was the subject of a publication: ''Monographies de Bâtiments Modernes. Maison rue Émile Menier N° 43 à Paris'', Mr. E. Molinié, Architecte, Paris, Ducher Fils, 1914. * 1923–1925: lotissement concerté de l'Avenue-du-Parc-Saint-James, avenue du Parc-Saint-James and rue du Bois-de-Boulogne in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...

in collaboration with Charles Nicod and Albert Pouthier * 1926: spa, Cambo-les-Bains, with Charles Nicod and . * 1929:

Villa Domergue The Villa Domergue is a historic mansion in Cannes. It was built in 1926 for painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue. The garden was designed from 1926 to 1936. The house was turned into a museum in honor of Domergue from 1962 to 1973, and it was subsequentl ...

, Cannes, with Charles Nicod. * 1935: former Picard printing, 10 rue Falguière,

14th 14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 (number), 13 and preceding 15 (number), 15. In relation to the word "four" (4), 14 is spelled "fourteen". In mathematics * 14 is a composite number. * 14 is a square pyramidal number. * 14 is a s ...

, with Charles Nicod. * 1954: building at 9-13 avenue Myron-Herrick,

18th 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

. * 1954: building at 1-3 rue du Colonel-Driant; 29 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1st.

External links

Notice
on Achiwebture
List of war memorials by Molinier
on Monuments aux morts

Some of his creations with links to each of them
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