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Paul Sédille (1836-1900) was a French architect and theorist; and designed the 1880 reconstruction of the iconic Magasins du Printemps department store in Paris. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction Printemps (meaning "spring" in French) is a French Department store (or a grand magasin, literally "big store" A department store is a Retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city

Though Sédille is best known for his Printemps design, he was also associated with the Creusot family foundry and was very active in professional associations and architectural education in the 1880s. He wrote a number of compelling pieces of architectural criticism, especially his review of contemporary Viennese and British architecture, and reflected what were by and large Teutonic theoretical concerns that have come to be understood as architectural realism, based on the works of Gottfried Semper. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927 Gottfried Semper ( November 29 1803 - May 15 1879) was a German Architect, Art critic, and professor of

Directly related to his interest in Semper, Sédille was an advocate of highly-coloured polychrome architecture. For the character from the Oz series see Polychrome (fictional character. His participation in the Universal Expositions of 1878 and 1889 in Paris were demonstration pieces of his approach of integrating colorful terra cotta tilework and structural into the vocabulary of classical, beaux-arts architectural forms. Expo (short for "exposition" and also known as World Fair and World's Fair) is the name given to various large public exhibitions held since the Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Terra cotta ( Italian: "baked earth" is a Ceramic. Its uses include vessels water & waste water pipes and surface embellishment in Building construction

Sédille made his mark as a private architect executing residential commissions during an age that celebrated heroic, civic works such as the Paris Opéra (1860-1875) by Charles Garnier or the Palais de Justice (Paris, 1857-68) by Joseph Louis Duc and Honoré Daumet. Charles Garnier may refer to Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary martyred in Canada in 1649 Charles Garnier (architect, 19th century Pierre Jérôme Honoré Daumet (1826 - 1911 was a French architect

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