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          Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (1858–1910) was a Belgian architect and furniture designer.

          Gustave Serrurier-Bovy.

          He is credited (along with Paul Hankar, Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde) with creating the Art Nouveau style, coined as a style in Paris by art dealerSiegfried Bing.

          Artistic career

          Serrurier-Bovy was born in Liège.

          In 1884 he visited London, where he became interested in the Arts and Crafts movement. He returned to Belgium and put several of the new movement's concepts into practice into his creations, which he sold at his store in Liège.

          He also designed his own villa, "L'Aube," situated in the Parc de Cointe, in Liège, and produced work for the Brussels International (1897).

          Born in Śrem (Poland).

        1. Born in Śrem (Poland).
        2. The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus / by: Flint Published: (, c) Gustave Serrurier-Bovy: architecte et décorateur
        3. Complete sets of furniture came from the Belgian architect Gustave Serrurier-Bovy Christopher Columbus to the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella has.
        4. Born at Frameries, in Hainaut, the son of a master stone cutter, he had studied ornamental sculpture and decoration at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in.
        5. The series can be regarded as a tribute to the old world, a celebration of the metier and also a reference to the aging of Western civilization.

          6. He died in Liège.

          Serrurier-Bovy became known for his line of simple, refined furniture.

          Several pieces of his furniture are on display in the Art Nouveau s