Architects' houses in Paris, private visits : From 1920 until today

Pierre-Olivier Deschamps
Architect’s houses in Paris, private visits : From 1920 until today

Authors : Pierre-Olivier Deschamps Maryse Quinton et Claude Parent
Editor : Editions de la Martinière
Date : 2010-02
ISBN : 978-2732440552
Size : 32 x 24,6 cm
Language : French
311 pages

These are visits, sometimes never seen before, of houses built by architects from the 1920s to the present day, in Paris and the Paris region, that offers this beautiful book, prefaced by Claude Parent.

You will be able to discover or rediscover Le Corbusier’s house-studio Ozenfant, the house-studio for Chana Orloff by the Perret brothers or André Lurçat’s Bachelet house-studio at the Villa Seurat in the 14th arrondissement, Robert Mallet-Stevens’ Martel hotel in the 16th, the André Bloc house and Jean Prouvé’s house number 7 in Meudon, or Christophe Lab’s house-agency in the 19th or Louis Paillard’s Trapeze house in Montreuil. Whether historical or contemporary, all these achievements illustrate the art of living in an architect’s house.

For this book intends to offer a new look at the domestic life that took place in these remarkable houses, which we often know through photos free of human life. The inhabitants of these places who agreed to play the game, opened their doors and told us their stories, always singular. (Maryse Quinton)