Architecture of Paris with ceramics on Rue Franklin. Henri Sauvage also made art-deco residential buildings with clean geometric lines, made of reinforced concrete faced with white ceramic tiles. The architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier. went further, designing houses in geometric forms, lacking any ornament. At age of twenty-one worked as an assistant in the office of Perret. In 1922 he opened his own architectural office with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in 1922 and built some of his first houses in Paris, notably the Villa La Roche at 10 square du Docteur-Blanche in the 16th arrondissement, built for a Swiss pharmaceuticals
Gris Davies-Scourfield Gris Davies-Scourfield Brigadier Edward Grismond Beaumont 'Gris' Davies-Scourfield was a British Army officer who became a Prisoner of War and escaped from Stalag XXI-D and Colditz Castle during the Second World War. Gris Davies-Scourfield was born in Patching, Sussex on 8 August 1918, He was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst where he was awarded the King's Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles 25 August 1938. He served in England until the outbreak of World War II where he was sent to France as a platoon commander participating in the defence