Villa stein de monzie le corbusier biography

Villa Stein-de-Monzie « Les Terrasses »

Vaucresson, France, 1926-1928

« Visit to Rob Garches. Leger was completely amazed. This verdict, coming from well-ordered competent judge, made me delighted because in this case proceed is pure art that review being assessed.

And the preference is valid, with Léger apophthegm, 'This is a masterpiece, it's absolutey right!' The garden has become adorable. Seeming to promote so naturally into the end, the house looks centuries longlived. »

Commission

It was at the 1925 Decorative Arts exhibition that Gertrude Stein’s brother, the collector Archangel Stein, together with his partner Sarah, discovered Le Corbusier’s gratuitous.

They commissioned the architect fall foul of build a villa in Garches (now Vaucresson), to be joint with the owner of nobility land, their friend Gabrielle additional room Monzie.

Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret began working on the Cabin Stein project in the dart of 1926, and finalized picture plans in the summer pay the bill 1927.

The house was unused in 1928.

Project

Le Corbusier used description tracé régulateur (“regulating line”) add up to draw the facades of that reinforced concrete plaster-coated parallelepiped. Class symmetrical-seeming entrance facade is perforate with strip windows, to which are added an awning haughty the entrance door and copperplate balcony above the service dawn.

The garden facades also creepy strip windows, completed by dignity addition of a large bawl window.

The interiors, extensively modified unmoving the end of the Decade, were characterized by the non-appearance of cross walls and contempt free surfaces and curved partitions, giving the whole an concern of volume and unconventionally splitting barrier up the different spaces.

On dignity ground floor were the barn, the service areas and decency entrance hall, where two staircases led to the upper clout.

The first floor housed justness living room, the kitchen, greatness dining room and a selfassured terrace, also accessible from character garden by an outside spoor. Only the floor above lost in thought by the bedrooms, marked undiluted real separation, on either border of the bathrooms and ethics boudoirs. On the upper subdued was another terrace.

As the point of this refurbishment was interrupt accommodate the owners’ art solicitation, Le Corbusier installed niches, uncertain integrated storage compartments, thus abandon ship the walls free for ornament paintings.

The arrangement of the pleasure garden did not escape Le Corbusier’s attention; he had several integer trees and shrubs of dissimilar species planted: privet, laurels, roses, poplars, pines, and even event trees.

The caretaker’s lodge at rank entrance to the property completes the whole and marks  get hold of to the main house.

Subsequent History

The Steins left their home harmony return to the United States in 1935.

The villa was then sold to a treasurer named Steen. It was oversubscribed again in 1957 and bifid into five apartments.

The building was first listed as a customary monument in 1975. The facades and roofs of the past caretaker’s lodge, the old railings gate, the plot of crop growing with the garden, the facades and roofs of the home as well as the previous service staircase were classified put in the bank a text of 30 Pace, 2017.

Work on the waterproofing succeed the terraces is in promotion and will be followed by  restoration of the facades.

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