Louis-Hippolyte Boileau

Louis-Hippolyte Boileau (French pronunciation: [lwi ipolit bwalo]; 1878–1948) was a French architect.

Grandson of Louis-Auguste Boileau (1812–1896) and son of Louis-Charles Boileau (1837–1914, architect of the Hôtel Lutetia), Louis-Hippolyte studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Gaston Redon. He is best known for his Art Deco.

Works

annex to the Le Bon Marché department store, Paris, 1920s
war monument, Longwy, 1925
Pomone Pavilion for Bon Marché, for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925
the Pagode de Vincennes, for the Paris Colonial Exposition, 1931, now on the shore of the Lac Daumesnil in Paris
the new Palais de Chaillot at the Trocadéro, for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937), with fellow architects Jacques Carlu and Léon Azéma
additions to the Expositions Buildings at the Porte de Versailles, with Léon Azéma, 1937

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