However, in 1893 he left Sainte-Barbe and entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied painting in the studio of Victor Laloux (1850–1937).

Süe joined other artists to create L'Atalier Français, a cooperative business that borrowed organizational idea from the Wiener Werkstätte.

André Vera wrote a manifesto that defined the goal of the group as combining traditional and modern ideas to bring clarity, order and aesthetic unity to interior design.

[4] Louis Süe, André Mare and Gustave Jaulmes collaborated in 1919 in decorating the victory festivals in Paris.

[1] The company employed many artists and craftsmen to meet the needs of their sophisticated and wealthy clientele for interior decoration.

Süe and Mare decorated interiors such as the Polish Embassy in Paris and the home of Jean Patou.

[1] In 1922 the Compagnie des arts français obtained financial support from Gaston Monteux, owner of the Raoul shoe firm.

[1] They showed a luxurious room in the grand salon with furniture, carpet, wallpaper and decorations in new forms linked to traditional designs.

[7] After leaving the Compagnie des arts français Louis Süe worked as an independent architect-decorator, and designed buildings for various well-known figures.

[1] Between 1934 and 1937 he reconstructed for Helena Rubinstein a run-down building, the Hôtel Hesselin, on the Quai de Béthune in Paris, converting it in an elegant and luxurious mansion.

[7] After the war he built an industrial town in Rupt-sur-Moselle, Vosges, the Museum of the Annunciation in Saint-Tropez, and many villas and private residences.