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Chedanne, Georges(-Paul)
(b Maromme, Seine-Maritime, 23 Sept 1861; d Paris, 30 Dec 1940). French architect. He was a student of Julien Guadet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won the Prix de Rome with a gymnasium project in 1887. In Italy he made numerous restoration studies of the Pantheon (Rouen, Mus. B.-A.; see ROME, fig. 26). His most significant projects before World War I were the Champs-Elysées Palace (now Crédit Commercial de France), which was built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, and the French Embassy (1901–12) on the Schwartzenbergplatz, Vienna. He was disinclined to use polychromatic techniques, preferring perfection of line and the monumental effect of modelling obtained from using stone and rendering façades. For ornamentation he preferred allegorical sculpted groups that were elements in the overall composition. His plan was to create a modern art derived from both traditional Parisian architecture and Art Nouveau. His buildings are highly individual, the fruit of collaboration between sculptors, painters and the architect. Interior decorations were inspired by the whimsical and fanciful effects of early 18th-century design.
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