Charles Plumet from the addition of curvilinear ornamentation, which was unusual at the time. Gustave Soulier considered Plumet and Selmersheim were truly innovative in their furniture designs, which combined workmanship, elegance and functionality. In 1908 Frantz Jourdain was president of the Salon d'automne, Plumet was vice-president and Henri Sauvage was sectional president for architecture. These three were visited in turn by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, later known as Le Corbusier, who was looking for work. None of them could offer anything significant. Plumet was chief architect of the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs", Paris (1925). Charles Plumet died in 1928. Plumet was the architect
Charles Reed (architect) Charles Reed (architect) Charles Reed (later Charles Verelst) (1814 – 13 December 1859) was an English architect. He practised in Birkenhead, which was then in Cheshire and later in Merseyside. He was orphaned as a child and brought up by an uncle. When the uncle died, Reed inherited his estate at Aston Hall, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and changed his surname to Verelst. During the 1840s and 1850s he worked for Sir William Jackson in laying out a housing estate in Claughton, and designing villas within that development. Two roads in the estate, Charlesville and Reedville, are named after him.