Georges Wybo
| Eugène Adolphe Henri Georges Wybo | |
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| Born |
11 October 1880 Paris, France |
| Died | 1943 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Architect |
Eugène Adolphe Henri Georges Wybo (11 October 1880 – 1943) was a French architect who is known for the casino and the Hôtel Royal in Deauville, and for the department stores that he built for the Printemps chain.
Georges Wybo was born in Paris in 1880, the son of a jeweler. He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1899, where he studied under Victor Laloux. He won the Chaudesaigues prize in 1901, but does not appear to have graduated. He exhibited regularly at the annual salons of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1900 to 1910. During this period he made theater sets, designed the monument built in Ris-Orangis in memory of the singers who were lost with the sinking of the liner Général-Chanzy, and designed the tomb of the cartoonist Caran d'Ache in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. Wybo also designed various houses in the country.
Wybo's first major commission was for the casino in Deauville (1911–12), which drew inspiration from the Grand Trianon. The work combined ostentatious luxury with functionality, and led to further commissions in Deauville. In 1913 Wybo and Théo Petit designed the Hôtel Royal in Deauville. In 1912 he replaced René Binet as chief architect of the Printemps department store. He designed forty stores for Printemps including reconstruction of the building on the Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arondissement of Paris after a fire in 1921.
Between 1917 and 1922 Wybo constructed the buildings of Grands-Moulins. The largest is on the bank of the Seine. They were later renovated by Rudy Ricciotti, and the largest is now entirely occupied by a library. In 1919 the Commission on Reconstruction gave him responsibility for urban planning in several towns in the Ardennes. In the 1920s Wybo worked for the car manufacturer André Citroën for whom he developed stylish showrooms and garages.
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