Leon Bénard

Leon Bénard is a Architecte - manufacturer at the origin of some of the most beautiful villas built during the Belle Time with Bagnoles of the Flowering ash. One will retain more particularly the villas Printania (ex- Gallia ) and the Manor house . He manages his projects like the realization of works of art by controlling all the stages of the design to the realization.

Its extremely rich style makes use of a foultitude of construction materials and decoration like polychrome bricks, ceramics panels, wood cut out, finials, local stone equipment (known as white stone or stone of forest ), wrought iron, and even the concrete which constitutes an innovative technique for the time.

The style “Bagnolais” that it develops is not easily classable because one can neither catalog it in the eclecticism nor in regionalism. One moves away many models from construction from the Second Empire and certain aspects of its work make think of the architects École of Nancy like Emile André or Lucien Weissenburger.

Leon Bénard dies in one of his villas ( Graziella ) with Bagnoles of the Flowering ash in 1930.

Works

Motor-in-the Orne, town of water /under the direction of Herve Pelvillain; réd. Isabelle Léone-Robin; photogr. Pascal Corbierre. -: Cultural development in Basse-Normandie, 1995. - p. - (Routes of the inheritance; 106).

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