Palais de Chaillot: Five Art Deco Snapshots

1937: Boileau, Carlu, and Azéma built Palais de Chaillot for the Exposition Internationale, with wings framing the Eiffel Tower.

1937: Boileau, Carlu, and Azéma kept the Trocadéro footprint, opening a broad esplanade between two curved wings.

1937: Boileau, Carlu, and Azéma gave Palais de Chaillot clean symmetry, tall windows, columns, and bronze statues.

1937: Paul Valéry appears in carved inscriptions across Palais de Chaillot's wings, turning the façades into a literary signature.

1948: Paul Valéry's wings overlook the Esplanade des Droits de l'Homme, and Chaillot remains an Art Deco triumph.