denneville

Updated: June 20, 2025

After a good deal of experimenting Denneville had found that for his purpose gypsum rock was most serviceable. On being ground and colored it could be used as a plaster and made to seem in texture so close to Travertine marble as to be almost indistinguishable. The results perfectly justified his faith.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

Details, French Renaissance developed from the Italian influence. To right, Press Building, designed and built by the Exposition; Harris H. D. Connick, Director of Works. To left, large building, Palace of Horticulture, Bakewell & Brown, architects. To left, Young Women's Christian Association. French light standards, by Walter D'Arcy Ryan and P. E. Denneville.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

He never made a plan without taking them into consultation. Then, too, Calder, acting head of the Department of Sculpture, and Denneville, the inventor of the particular kind of imitation Travertine marble used on the grounds, were active in all the planning. In fact, very little was done without the co-operation of Guerin, Calder, Denneville and Kelham, chief of the Architectural Board.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

Trees, yews in couples, on either side of walks and center of lawn; redwoods and eucalypti at sides of entrance to court. Shiny-leaved dark green shrub, on borders in court, coprosma. Mass of green, placed at end of court to hide Morro Castle. Deepens intimate note of court. French lighting standards at north end of court, by Ryan and Denneville. Aisle of Sunset

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

Paul Denneville, with its innumerable fine accidental effects, so reminiscent of the tone and the weather-beaten qualities of really old surfaces, is an asset that the sculptors among all the collaborating artists gratefully acknowledge. The artistic value of the Travertine lies in its beautiful expression of architecture as well as of sculpture.

Eugen Neuhaus - The Art of the Exposition

Already Paul E. Denneville had been successful in working with material made in imitation of Travertine marble, used in many of the ancient buildings of Rome, very beautiful in texture and peculiarly suited to the kind of building that needed color. He it was who had used the material in the Pennsylvania Station, New York, in the upper part of the walls.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

Palms, in garden. Corridors, pink walls, blue ceiling. Lamp standards, smoked ivory globes. Designed by Kelham, modeled by Denneville. Lamps in corridors Roman, hanging. Light pink, green, and cream; effective. By Kelham. Murals, in corridors, at east, north, and west portals. "Pursuit of Pleasure," east arch, Charles W. Holloway.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

Festoons of fruit in panels, blues and reds. Coupled Ionic columns, smoked. Effective against pink walls. Vases, before entrances, by Weinert. Bacchanalian revels, low relief. Satyr handles. Lighting standards on balustrade, designed by Ryan, modeled by Denneville. "Pool of Reflections," no sculpture. Italian cypresses, on sides of portals. Balled acacias between columns on corridors.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth