Record 083 · Showcase home · 1931
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Maison de Verre
Built 1928-1931 at 31 rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris, by Pierre Chareau with Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet for Dr Jean Dalsace, whose medical practice occupies the ground floor. A steel frame was inserted into an early-18th-century hôtel whose top floor had to be left intact because of a tenant who could not be evicted, and the house is lit by a fully glazed façade of Saint-Gobain glass blocks. It was restored by Bernard Bauchet from 1985 to 1993.
- Steel frame inserted beneath an occupied 18th-century upper floor
- Façade entirely of glass blocks (dalles de verre) made by Saint-Gobain
- Combined ground-floor medical practice and residence
- Interior fittings and furniture by Chareau, fabricated by metalworker Louis Dalbet
- Variable interior space via sliding, folding or rotating glass and perforated-metal screens
- Industrial elements in a home: rubber floor tiles, bare steel beams, perforated metal sheet
- kinetic
Image
- Credit
- Subrealistsandu, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Source
- commons.wikimedia.org
Dating
- “Maison construite de 1928 à 1931 par l'architecte Pierre Chareau” · pop.culture.gouv.fr
