Diploma of the Legion of Honor for B. Lachert. 1939/1946.

[LACHERT Bohdan]. Diploma confirming the awarding of the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor to Bohdan Lachert, professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, author of the architectural design of the Polish Pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris.
Diploma form. 43.7x55.8 cm, handwritten. Text in decorative border, inside an image of the order. At the bottom, signature of Grand Master of the Order Georges Bidault (President of the Provisional Government of the Republic) and Grand Chancellor Gen. Paul Dessault. In the lower left corner, the official seal (blind piston). Awarded on August 14, 1939, the diploma was issued after the end of the war on October 10, 1946. Minor folding of the sheet, small loss of the upper corner.
B. Lachert (1900-1987) - architect, representative of modernism creating under the influence of Le Corbusier's theory, author of numerous completed architectural projects. In 1926 he created with J. Szanajca the author's architectural studio, was co-founder and member of the Praesens group. "He taught at the Warsaw University of Technology, but lost his tenure in 1937 due to his opposition to the bench ghetto [...]. Lachert's works are counted among the architectural avant-garde of the Second Polish Republic" (Wikipedia). In 1937, together with Bohdan Pniewski, Stanislaw Brukalski and Jozef Szanajca, he designed the Polish pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris, which stood out among the others. "The Polish press lambasted, appreciated in the West, the design of the Pavilion with unheard-of virulence" (culture.pl).