Claim: Frantz Jourdain was given the job of creating the maximum amount of space as quickly and cheaply as possible and designed a radical steel structure, and the flamboyant exterior decoration was executed by his son.
Evidence: Jourdain was given the job of creating the maximum amount of space as quickly and cheaply as possible, and designed a radical steel structure. The flamboyant exterior decoration was executed by his son, the decorator Francis Jourdain, the painter Eugène Grasset, the metalworker Edouard Schenck and the ceramist Alexandre Bigot.