Background
Chambellan was born in Union City, New Jersey.
Chambellan was born in Union City, New Jersey.
He studied at New York University from 1912 to 1914, in Paris at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design from 1914 to 1917 and the Ecole Julian (1918-1919), as well as with sculptor Solon Borglum in New York City.
He was also one of the foremost practitioners of what was then called the "French Modern Style" and has subsequently been labeled Zig-Zag Moderne, or Art Deco. He also frequently designed in the Greco Deco style. During the First World War, he was a sergeant in France with the United States. Army.
Chambellan was a resident of Cliffside Park, New Jersey.