Paul Huillard

Paul Huillard (French pronunciation: ​[ɥijaʁ]; 15 February 1875 – 11 February 1966) was a French designer and architect who collaborated on many projects with Louis Süe.

Paul Huillard
Born(1875-02-15)15 February 1875
Santiago, Chile
Died11 February 1966(1966-02-11) (aged 90)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationArchitect, designer

Career
Château de La Fougeraie (1911)

Paul Huillard was born in Santiago on 15 February 1875.[1] Huillard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Victor Laloux (1850–1937).[2] He was a classmate of the architect Louis Süe.[3] He qualified as an Architecte DPLG.[1][lower-alpha 1] He married Jeanne Moreau on 17 April 1907.[1]

From 1903 to 1912 Huillard and Süe worked as the Agence Süe et Huillard.[4] They made a series of dwellings, particularly for their painter friends.[3] Huillard and Süe collaborated on a row of buildings of the Rue Cassini, Paris.[5] 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 (1911) in Brussels.[6] The château was built for the industrialist Paul Wittouck (1851–1917).[7] Sue, Huillard and the decorator Gustave Louis Jaulmes avoided Art Nouveau for the château, and instead chose the fashionable Louis XVI style "à la Grecque".[8]

Huillard and Süe also designed furniture.[9] They were involved in interior decoration, and regularly exhibited at the Salon d'Automne.[3] Huillard exhibited an Art Deco bedroom at the 1913 Salon d'Automne.[10] He also showed a model dining room at this Salon.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13]

Paul Huillard became a specialist in the faience of the Yonne department.[14] In 1960 he published a book on the faience of Auxerre from 1725 to 1870.[15] 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.[16] He died on 11 February 1966 in Paris at the age of 90.[1] He bequeathed the house and faience collection to the town of Villiers-Saint-Benoît, where it is now the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Puisaye.[14]

Publications
  • Paul Huillard (1960). La fai͏̈ence en Bourgogne auxerroise depuis 1725 environ, pendant la Révolution et jusqu'en 1870. Paris: Larousse. p. 229.

Notes
  1. Architecte DPLG: Architecte diplômé par le gouvernement. A professional qualification awarded by the École des Beaux-Arts and recognized by the government.
  1. Huillard 2015.
  2. Sutcliffe 1996, p. 127.
  3. Mardaga 1991, p. 459.
  4. Mardaga 1991, p. 467.
  5. Mardaga 1991, p. 473–474.
  6. Mardaga 1991, p. 474.
  7. Institut français d'architecture 1991, p. 474.
  8. Swimberghe & Verlinde 1997.
  9. Campbell 2006, p. 406.
  10. PAUL HUILLARD ARCHITEECTE DECORATEUR...
  11. Bohn 1997, p. 98.
  12. Charles & Carl 2012, p. 36.
  13. bâtir par éléments.
  14. Villiers-Saint-Benoit, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Puisaye.
  15. La faience en Bourgogne Auxerroise...
  16. Auzias & Labourdette 2005, p. 214.

Sources

See also

Art Deco in Paris

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