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Album PH1986:0900.15 comprises 30 photographs of the Banque Libre, Manufactures de Glaces de Saint-Gobain, and a housing project all by Michel Roux-Spitz in Lyon, France. Views of the Banque Libre de Lyon show the wrought iron entrance door, the ground floor façade, the wrought iron gate and detail of its motif. Views of the Manufactures de Glaces de Saint-Gobain, Aniche, Boussois, Entrepôt de Lyon (Lyon warehouses) show the staircase in the exhibition hall on the ground floor, the exhibition hall (one with display unit showing glass samples), the salesroom on first floor, the storage hall, view of an office, a console, the entrance door of the warehouse and a glass panel. Views of the housing project on avenue Jean Jaurès show the development plan (plan d'ensemble) of the ground floor bearing the title 'Les Fils de Jules Weitz. Groupe d'Immeubles à petits logis hygiéniques et modernes. Plan d'ensemble du rez-de-chaussée', the façade on the south-east side and ground floor plan, first floor plan on the north side, the ground floor plan on the north side and cross-sections of buildings.

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Album PH1986:0900.02 comprises 71 photographs of projects by architect Michel Roux-Spitz including Villa Weitz (1923), Église Saint-François d'Assise, and Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse, all in Lyon, France. Photographs of Villa Weitz show the façade, loggia, wrought iron gate, interior views with the staircase and vestibule, entrance door and hallway, living room, detail of the façade loggia and hall on the garden side, details of the mosaic, a display case, ceiling lamp in alabaster, bas-reliefs, study drawing for an interior and several views of a scale model. Photographs of the Église Saint-François d'Assise show views of the dome in glass concrete, the mosaic and iron balustrade. Several photographs show views of the Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse including the basement, ground floor, first and second floor plans, longitudinal section, main façade, the building site, rear façade, the staircase, the dome with glass by the Saint-Gobain factory in Lyon, the front lobby, the promenoir on the ground and first floors, the entrance with concrete clautras, overall views of the entrance, the gallery and rest area, entrance doors, the ventilation shield on the ceiling, views of one of the two staircases with walls made of concrete mullions and cathedral glass, concrete gutters and stairs made of massive Villebois stone, overall views of the concert hall, the orchestra and the stage.

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The 16 albums PH1986:0900.01-.16 comprises 849 photographs and 34 prints of works by Michel Roux-Spitz. The majority of the photographs show projects in Paris and Lyon, France, although Versailles and Fontainebleau, France, Brussels, Belgium, and Rome, Italy also feature. Amongst others, the photographs include views of La Croix-Rousse train station, Villa Weitz, Église Saint-François d'Assise, Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse, Banque Libre, Manufactures de Glaces de Saint-Gobain, and a housing project in Lyon; Les Galeries Lafayette, Boutique Roger Bal, the atelier de Monsieur Roger Bal, Bijouterie Kepta, a post-office, the Ford Building, Bibliothèque Nationale, Hôtel Roland Bonaparte, and various other buildings in Paris; The Bibliothèque Nationale in Versailles; and other furniture, interiors, fountains, monuments, tombs, vases, models and studies.