Louis-Hippolyte Boileau
Louis-Hippolyte Boileau (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 Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Gaston Redon. He's is best known for his Art Deco
His work includes:
- 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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