1. Joseph Paul Anthony Selmersheim, known as Tony Selmersheim was a French architect and decorator.
10 Facts About Tony Selmersheim
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Joseph Paul Anthony Selmersheim was born on 2 June 1871 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines.
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Tony Selmersheim's parents were Antoine Paul Selmersheim, an architect, and Madeleine Victorine Louise Eugenie Naples.
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Tony Selmersheim became an architect, and worked with Charles Plumet.
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Tony Selmersheim worked at La Maison Moderne of Julius Meier-Graefe, whose showrooms displayed rooms decorated in Art Nouveau style, with designers such as Henry van de Velde, Victor Horta, Charles Plumet and Maurice Dufrene.
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Tony Selmersheim noted that Selmersheim felt an architect should be a designer.
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Tony Selmersheim discussed a complete room that Selmersheim had designed, including the structure, decoration and furniture, which succeeded by relieving the inhabitant of the need to concern himself with making his home habitable.
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Gustave Soulier considered Plumet and Tony Selmersheim were truly innovative in their furniture designs, which combined workmanship, elegance and functionality.
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Tony Selmersheim became a member of L'Art dans Tout, a group of decorative artists.
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Tony Selmersheim died on 16 August 1971 in Ussy-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne.