Guilbert, Albert-Désiré
Name
Guilbert, Albert-Désiré
Variant name
Guilbert, Albert
Gender
Male
Birth
May 10, 1866 Pontoise
Death
March 13, 1949 Paris
Descriptive Note
Albert Guilbert attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, obtaining a degree in architecture in 1892. After being awarded several prizes and medals, he was commissioned to design the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Consolation in Paris, which was inaugurated in May 1900.
He was a member of the Société Centrale des Architectes and the Société des Artistes Français. He served as General Inspector for Historical Monuments (namely, Architecte en chef des bâtiments civils et palais nationaux) and was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1910.
He participated in the Exposition franco-britannique in London in 1908.
Guilbert initially practiced the formal eclecticism of late 19th-century French architecture, and later moved to the massive forms of Art Deco, particularly in the projects carried out with his son, Jacques Guilbert (1900–1948), from the early 1930s.
In Turin 1911 Guilbert worked on the Salon d'Honneur of the Ville de Paris and designed the kiosks of Évian-Cachat, Saint-Gobain-Desmarais Frères, Vichy, and Côte d'Azur.
Roles
Makers, Architects and Engineers
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