Education
Davis studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in the 1890s.
Davis studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in the 1890s.
The firm designed the elevations and interior decoration of the London Ritz Hotel which introduced modern French comfort and luxury enabled by an innovative steel frame construction. Prior to World War I, Davis worked on a number of ocean liners such as the Aquitania (1911-1914) and after his military service he designed a number of banks in London. His last major commission was the Queen Mary (1935).
In 1949 he gave his recreations as golf and water-colour sketching.