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Plumet, Charles
(b Cirey-sur-Vezouze, 17 May 1861; d Paris, 15 April 1928). French architect and writer. He studied architecture with Eugène Train at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and worked in the office of Eugène Bruneau (b 1836), chief architect to the Commission des Monuments Historiques. Attracted to the design of ornament, he completed his training by studying decorative modelling. He began his architectural career in the 1890s by designing several blocks of flats in Paris, including 151 Rue Legendre, 67 Avenue de Malakoff and 36 Rue de Tocqueville. These buildings introduced a new range of forms, recognizable both on the façades and in the communal areas inside. The halls were decorated with glazed earthenware panels and mosaic floors, while loggia-like galleries opened out the upper storeys of the buildings in a picturesque aedicular arrangement. Details of the structures were worked up in his studio using plaster models, which made for a sober style of ornamentation. Balconies, brackets and mouldings projected in low relief from the walls, and polychrome effects were achieved through the use of such materials as limestone, brick, glazed brick and ceramic.
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