Henri Sauvage was a French

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 architectural designer

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Sauvage was born in Rouen

Rouen

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, France

France

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. After studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.The École des Beaux-arts is made up of a vast complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près,...

 in the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal

Jean-Louis Pascal

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, he opened a wallpaper

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 shop in Paris

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 for which he got orders from Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard was an architect, who is now the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....

 and Louis Majorelle

Louis Majorelle

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, he then collaborated with the architect Charles Saratin from 1898 to 1912, which whom he funded the Société anonyme de logements hygiéniques à bon marché in 1903. He married Marie-Louise Charpentier in 1898. He designed numerous social buildings

Public housing

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Friend of Hector Guimard, he was both an Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

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 and modern

Modern architecture

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 architect. Models of Henri Sauvage were used to decorated the Art Deco

Art Deco

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 lobby of Carnegie library of Reims

Carnegie Library of Reims

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From 1928 to 1931, he taught at the "architecture workshop" of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs

École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs

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