GELIN ou GÉLIN, Denis

Château-Landon, Seine-et-Marne 1896 - Vaux-le-Pénil, Seine-et-Marne 1979

BOTTIAU, Alfred

Valenciennes, Nord 1889 - Valenciennes, Nord 1951

Décor du restaurant Eaton Le 9e : Les Lapins

Decoration of Restaurant Eaton Le 9e: Rabbits

1930

cast stucco

relief

signed: D. Gélin & A. Bottiau

Photo credit: 2022 Poinsignon 

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Montréal, Québec, Restaurant Eaton Le 9e

Provenance

• 1931, Montreal, The department store Eaton of the chain founded by Timothy Eaton (1834-1907) was raised from six floors in 1927 to nine by the architectural firm Ross and Macdonald. A restaurant (Le 9e, The Ninth, also called L'Ile-de-France) is created on the 10th floor of the building. It comprises a dining-room and a foyer and is one of the earliest Art deco ensemble in Canada. It was designed by French architect Jacques Carlu (1890-1976), by then Professor of Architecture at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge).
• 1931, January 26, Lady Eaton, wife of John Craig Eaton, opens the restaurant
• 1981, The restaurant is renovated
• 1999, October, The restaurant, which had retained most of its original decor, is closed after Eaton's bankruptcy
• 2000, August 24, It is listed as a heritage building

Bibliography

• Liste envoyée par Claire Vuitton, septembre 2018.
• Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec, http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=93268&type=bien#.XG8KcaBOmUk (consulté le 21 février 2019)
• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Eaton_Le_9e (consulté le 21 février 2019)
• 2022 Poinsignon 
  Jean-Claude Poinsignon, L'humble ymagier, Alfred Bottiau (1889-1951), Édition Valentiana, 2022, p. 74-75
   

Comment

• See text on French version of this website.

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