1. Eugene Adolphe Henri Georges Wybo was a French architect who is known for the casino and the Hotel Royal in Deauville, and for the department stores that he built for the Printemps chain.
13 Facts About Georges Wybo
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Georges Wybo was born in Paris in 1880, the son of a jeweler.
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Georges Wybo was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1899, where he studied under Victor Laloux.
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Georges Wybo won the Chaudesaigues prize in 1901, but does not appear to have graduated.
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Georges Wybo exhibited regularly at the annual salons of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1900 to 1910.
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Georges Wybo designed forty stores for Printemps including reconstruction of the building on the Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris after a fire in 1921.
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Between 1917 and 1922 Georges Wybo constructed the buildings of Grands-Moulins.
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Georges Wybo designed the Hotel George V near the Arc de Triomphe for the American hotelier Joel Hillman in 1928.
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In 1929 Georges Wybo designed the Hotel du Golf in Deauville.
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Georges Wybo designed the French pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, located in the Plaza de los Reyes in the angle formed by two naves of the Palace of Alfonso XIII.
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From 1931 Georges Wybo was architect for the Prisunic stores, a subsidiary of Printemps.
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Georges Wybo built more than twelve stores for this chain in different parts of France.
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Apart from the many department stores, Georges Wybo designed various other significant buildings including:.