Rene Sergeant

Rene Sergent is a Architecte French born in 1865 and died in 1927.

Biography

Registered with the special School of architecture, Sergent receives there the teaching of Emile Trélat and Thierry-Ladrange. Receipt first with the diploma, it with the possibility of entering the very famous agency that Ernest Sanson directs, where it remains more than fifteen years. He studies there thoroughly works of the architects and French ornementists of the 18th century, but also of their English contemporaries like the Adam brother. To the Living rooms of 1885 and 1887, it exposes a " raised of a door of the Carnavalet" hotel; and " the frontage and cut on the staircase of the hotel of Thorigny".

In 1902, Sergent takes his independence and undertakes many restoration or building work for a rich person aristocratic and middle-class customers. He works successively for the prince of the Tower of Auvergne, the countess of Maupeou, the count Edmond de Fels, the count Moïse of Camondo, Duveen, Seligmann, Fabre-Luce, the Rothschild and Wendel. Its fame not ceasing growing, it is requested in the United States and in Argentina for Pierpont Morgan, Gould, Vanderbilt, Bosch, Alvear and Errázuriz.

Sergeant can make watch of a particular skill to integrate modern comfort in buildings of traditional proportions and style. He shows also a taste pronounced for the Stéréotomie, achieving in this field of true prowesses. Its agency extends quickly and it is made assist by Rene Bétourné and Leon Fagnen.

Sergeant also builds several large hotels of travellers: Trianon De luxe hotel with Versailles (1910), Savoy and Claridge with London, the Large Hotel of Rome, the Stéphanie hotel of Baden-Baden. It also builds the seat of the company Rolls-Royce. For the brothers Duveen, famous antique dealers, it builds (1907 - 1908) the Parisian store, small Trianon of an elegant style Louis XVI built in bottom of pieces n° 20 Place Vendôme (today seat of a bank), and gives drawings inspired of Versailles and Gabriel for the vast building of New York, with the angle of the 5th avenue and the 56e street (1909 - 1910, destroyed in 1953), whose realization is carried out by a local architect, Horace Trumbauer.

In 1911, Sergent accepted the large medal of the private architecture of the central Company of the architects.

Principal private constructions

1894 : Private mansion in Paris, 9 Street Léo-Delibes, Style neogothic and Néorenaissance.
1903 - 1906: Castle of Neighbors to Saint-Hilarion (Yvelines) for the count Edmond de Fels. Spectacular castle inspired of the style of the architect of the 18th century Angel-Jacques Gabriel, more particularly of the Military academy in Paris.
1910 : Private mansion in Paris, 9 Which occurred Charles Floquet (angle with 2 rue du general Lambert, today residence of the ambassador of India) for Jules Steinbach, of neo-classic style.
1911 with 1914: Private mansion in Paris, 63 Street of Heap, for the count Brace of Camondo (1860 - 1935), today Museum Nissim-with-Camondo of the central Union of decorative arts. In the spirit of an aristocratic residence of the 18th century, the hotel, undoubtedly one of the greatest successes of Sergeant, is freely inspired by the Petit Trianon of Versailles.
1911 : Palate Ernesto Bosch with Buenos Aires (Argentinian), today embassy of the United States.
1911 : Errazuriz palate with Buenos Aires (Argentinian), for Matias Errazuriz, today Museum of Decorative Arts.
1911 : Private mansion with Buenos Aires (Argentinian), for María Unzue de Alvear
1912: Palate “Without Concern” with San Fernando (Argentinian), for Carlos María de Alvear
1913: Private mansion in Paris, 19 which occurred of Iéna, for Alfred Heidelbach, of neo-classic style (shelters today the galleries of the Buddhist Pantheon of the Musée Guimet).
1914 : Private mansion with Buenos Aires (Argentinian), for Atucha
1922: Asilo Shine María Saavedra with Buenos Aires (Argentine) for Mrs. Alvear de Bosch
Château of Voormezeele (Belgium), of style Louis XIV (destroyed).
Private mansion in Paris, over Field-of-March, for the dressmaker Jean-Philippe Worth, of neo-classic style.

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