Unidentified photographer. Private hotels, album with 124 photographs and 5 postcards, 1913-1936. Hotels located 32 boulevard Poincaré in Strasbourg, 4 rue Laurent-Pichat in Paris, n°1 rue Joseph-Massol in Strasbourg, Villa Yra and villa Ouragan in Breitenbach (Bas-Rhin). The villa Ouragan - sometimes called villa Mathis, because it was built for Emile Mathis, a car manufacturer - designed by the architect and decorator Armand-Albert Rateau (1882-1938) is presented in the construction phase on 4 photographs. Interesting documents on the evolution of the architecture, the furnishing and the decoration, for this period, with - in particular - the advent of the Art-deco.

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