The Architect's Son and the German Industrial Dawn Born amidst the imperial grandeur of Saint Petersburg, Armand Marseille was a child shaped by the aesthetics of structure and precision. As the son of an architect to the Czar, his early years were steeped in a world where form and proportion were paramount. When his family emigrated to Germany in the 1860s, this innate understanding of design would find a new, more whimsical expressio…