Frantz Jourdain was given the job of creating the maximum amount of space as quickly and cheaply as possible and designed a radical steel structure, and the flamboyant exterior decoration was executed by his son.
Jourdain was given the job of creating the maximum amount of space as quickly and cheaply as possible, and designed a radical steel structure. The flamboyant exterior decoration was executed by his son, the decorator Francis Jourdain, the painter Eugene Grasset, the metalworker Edouard Schenck and the ceramist Alexandre Bigot. 
