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Paul Huillard (; 15 February 1875 – 11 February 1966) was a French designer and architect who collaborated on many projects with Louis Süe.
Paul Huillard was born in Santiago on 15 February 1875.
Huillard studied at the '' École des Beaux-Arts'' under Victor Laloux (1850–1937).
He was a classmate of the architect Louis Süe.
He qualified as an ''Architecte DPLG''.
He married Jeanne Moreau on 17 April 1907.
From 1903 to 1912 Huillard and Süe worked as the ''Agence Süe et Huillard''.
They made a series of dwellings, particularly for their painter friends.
Huillard and Süe collaborated on a row of buildings of the Rue Cassini, Paris.
Other works included a group of artists workshops on Boulevard du Montparnasse (1908–12), the ''Hôtel de Couture'' of Paul Poiret (1909) and the
Career
Paul Huillard was born in Santiago on 15 February 1875.
Huillard studied at the '' École des Beaux-Arts'' under Victor Laloux (1850–1937).
He was a classmate of the architect Louis Süe.
He qualified as an ''Architecte DPLG''.
He married Jeanne Moreau on 17 April 1907.
From 1903 to 1912 Huillard and Süe worked as the ''Agence Süe et Huillard''.
They made a series of dwellings, particularly for their painter friends.
Huillard and Süe collaborated on a row of buildings of the Rue Cassini, Paris.
Other works included a group of artists workshops on Boulevard du Montparnasse (1908–12), the ''Hôtel de Couture'' of Paul Poiret (1909) and the Château de La Fougeraie
The Château de La Fougeraie, also called the Château Wittouck, is a stately home in Belgium built in 1911 for the industrialist Paul Wittouck. The château is located in Uccle, on the outskirts of Brussels, in the Sonian Forest.
History
The ...
(1911) in Brussels.
The château was built for the industrialist Paul Wittouck
Paul Grégoire Pierre Wittouck (6 August 1851 – 9 November 1917) was a Belgian industrialist. He and his brother Frantz Wittouck became the largest sugar manufacturers in Belgium in the period leading up to the Great War. He was the grandson o ...
(1851–1917).
Sue, Huillard and the decorator Gustave Louis Jaulmes
Gustave Louis Jaulmes (14 April 1873 – 7 January 1959) was an eclectic French artist who followed the neoclassical trend in the Art Deco movement.
He created monumental frescoes, paintings, posters, illustrations, cartoons for tapestries and carp ...
avoided Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
for the château, and instead chose the fashionable Louis XVI style "à la Grecque".
Huillard and Süe also designed furniture.
They were involved in interior decoration, and regularly exhibited at the '' Salon d'Automne''.
Huillard exhibited an Art Deco bedroom at the 1913 ''Salon d'Automne''.
He also showed a model dining room at this Salon.
In the French section of the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts Paul Huillard designed the "library", a well-lit hall in which bindings, printed pages and engravings were displayed.
In the 1930s Huillard created an educational game, ''Bâtir'', with wooden blocks in various shapes and sizes painted with doors and windows.
The blocks could be assembled in different combinations to make houses.
Paul Huillard became a specialist in the faience of the Yonne department.
In 1960 he published a book on the faience of Auxerre from 1725 to 1870.
Huillard assembled a large collection of faience objects, and installed his collection in the house where Georges Moreau was born, a pleasant bourgeois residence from the 19th century typical of the local architecture.
He died on 11 February 1966 in Paris at the age of 90.
He bequeathed the house and faience collection to the town of Villiers-Saint-Benoît
Villiers-Saint-Benoît () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
See also
*Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne department of France.
Th ...
, where it is now the ''Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Puisaye''.
See also
*Art Deco in Paris
The Art Deco movement of architecture and design appeared in Paris in about 1910–12, and continued until the beginning of World War II in 1939. It took its name from the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Interna ...
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