Richard Hermann Antoine Bouwens van der Boijen (11 October 1863 – 31 August 1939) was a French architect. In 1901, he was one of the winners of 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 ...

for the realization of an

Hôtel particulier An ''hôtel particulier'' () is a grand townhouse, comparable to the Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse or mansion. Whereas an ordinary ''maison'' (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side an ...

, 8, rue de Lota in the

16th arrondissement of Paris The 16th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''seizième''. The arrondissement includes part of the Arc de T ...

. In the 1930s, he was an exponent of the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style; with French architect

Roger-Henri Expert Roger-Henri Expert (18 April 1882 – 13 April 1955) was a French architect. Life The son of a merchant, Expert first studied painting at the École des beaux-arts in Bordeaux, then from 1906 attended the École nationale supérieure des Be ...

, Bouwens was given overall responsibility for the interior design of the SS ''Normandie''. He is buried at Père-Lachaise Cemetery (36th division).

Some creations

* 1905: 27 bis quai Anatole-France (Paris) * 1905: 27 quai Anatole-France (Paris) * 1902: Le Centorial (Paris) * 1899: Hôtel particulier, 8, rue de Lota (16th) * Hôtel particulier, 6, rue de Chézy (

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 ...

) * Hôtel particulier, 8, rue de Chézy (Neuilly-sur-Seine) * Paquebot Ile-de-France, créateur de la grande descente de la salle à manger

References

Bibliography

* « Archives d'architecture du XXe siècle, Volume 1 », 1991 * Hélène Guéné, « Décoration et haute couture : Armand Albert Rateau pour Jeanne Lanvin, un autre Art déco », 2006 * François Roux, « Les architectes élèves de l'Ecole des beaux-arts : 1783-1907 », 2007

External links

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Richard Bouwens van der Boijen Notice
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Richard Bouwens van der Boijen
on PS archi-EU

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bouwens van der Boijen, Richard 19th-century French architects 20th-century French architects Officers of the Legion of Honour Architects from Paris 1863 births 1939 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery