24 Facts About Louis Bonnier

Louis Bernard Bonnier was a French architect known for his work as an urban planner for the city of Paris.

Louis Bonnier was instrumental in loosening the restrictions on the appearance of buildings in Paris, which resulted in the blossoming of Art Nouveau buildings.

Louis Bonnier designed many significant buildings himself, including private villas, public housing and railway buildings.

Louis Bernard Bonnier was born on 14 June 1856 in Templeuve, Nord.

Louis Bonnier was the son of a notary's clerk who later became manager of a sugar factory and then a wine salesman.

Louis Bonnier's brothers were Charles, Pierre Bonnier and Jules.

Louis Bonnier was admitted to the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1877, where he was a pupil of Andre Moyaux and Louis-Jules Andre.

Louis Bonnier was the sister of his friend Ferdinand Deconchy, a painter, and daughter of a well-known architect.

Louis Bonnier graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1886.

Louis Bonnier was named Architect of the City of Paris in 1884.

Louis Bonnier shared an interest in Japanese prints and stencil patterns with Siegfried Bing, and in 1895 was the main architect and designer for the renovation of Bing's shop at 22 rue de Provence in Paris, the Maison de l'Art Nouveau.

Louis Bonnier designed the grillwork for the entrance to the Japanese section of the shop on Rue Chauchat, and oversaw placement of the glass cupola over the corner turret.

Louis Bonnier oversaw the decorations and architectural changes to the shop, working with artisans such as Frank Brangwyn, an English Arts and Crafts designer.

Louis Bonnier designed a globe based on the concept of the anarchist geographer Elisee Reclus for the Paris Exposition Universelle.

Louis Bonnier designed the impressive Schneider Pavilion on the Quai Branly for the exposition.

Schneider was the main supplier of guns and armaments, and Louis Bonnier designed a red building situated on the bank of the Seine that resembled a huge gun turret or battery.

Louis Bonnier was responsible for the report of the commission that reviewed the decrees regulating construction in Paris, and prepared the decree of 13 August 1902 that gave more freedom in the appearance to buildings.

Louis Bonnier was Inspector General of Architectural Technical Services and Aesthetics of the Seine, and Chief Architect for Civil Buildings and National Palaces.

Louis Bonnier was responsible for the Elysee Palace from 1901 to 1911.

In 1916 Louis Bonnier proposed the creation of the archaeological and artistic depository of the prefecture of the Seine.

Louis Bonnier founded the Ecole superieure d'art public in 1917, which became the Ecole des hautes etudes urbaines in 1919.

Louis Bonnier taught there until 1924, when the EHEU became the Urban Planning Institute of the University of Paris.

Louis Bonnier built the Butte-aux-Cailles swimming pool, and a group of HMB buildings in Menilmontant.

Louis Bonnier's work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.