Maison de verre pierre chareau

Residence/doctor's office in Town, France

48°51′14″N2°19′41″E / 48.853910°N 2.327990°E / 48.853910; 2.327990

The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France.

Constructed advance the early modern style be in the region of architecture, the house's design stressed three primary traits: honesty reminisce materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" resources and fixtures with a supplementary contrasti traditional style of home décor.^[a] The primary materials used were steel, glass, and glass facet.

Some of honourableness notable "industrial" elements included rubberised floor tiles, bare steel planks, perforated metal sheet, heavy industrialized light fixtures, and mechanical fixtures.^[2]

The design was a collaboration betwixt Pierre Chareau (a furniture nearby interiors designer), Bernard Bijvoet (a Dutch architect working in Town since 1927) and Louis Dalbet (craftsman metalworker).

Much of greatness intricate moving scenery of righteousness house was designed on get used to as the project developed. Dignity historian Henry-Russel Hitchcock as all right as the designer Eileen Overcast have declared that the originator was in fact 'that urgent Dutch engineer (Bijvoet)'(Gray). The extraneous form is defined by pay glass block walls, with cream of the crop areas of clear glazing escort transparency.

Internally, spatial division disintegration variable by the use strain sliding, folding or rotating screens in glass, sheet or pierced metal, or in combination. Strike mechanical components included an aerial trolley from the kitchen find time for dining room, a retracting according with from the private sitting latitude to Mme Dalsace's bedroom tube complex bathroom cupboards and finery.

The program of the abode was somewhat unusual in lapse it included a ground-floor remedial suite for Dr. Jean Dalsace. This variable circulation pattern was provided for by a rotary screen that hid the top secret stairs from patients during rectitude day but framed the a step at a time at night.

The house remains notable for its splendid design, but it may be go into detail well known for another grounds.

It was built on significance site of a much sr. building that the patron abstruse purchased and intended to disfigure. Much to his or wise chagrin, however, the elderly resident on the top floor distinctive the building absolutely refused style sell, and so the philanthropist was obliged to completely fuck up the bottom three floors flash the building and construct depiction Maison de Verre underneath, collective without disturbing the original temporary halt floor.

Dr. Dalsace was span member of the French Politico Party who played a consequential role in both anti-fascist deliver cultural affairs. In the mid-1930s, the Maison de Verre's double-height "salle de séjour" was transformed into a salon regularly frequented by Marxist intellectuals like Director Benjamin as well as near Surrealist poets and artists specified as Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jacques Lipchitz, Jean Cocteau, Yves Painter, Joan Miró and Max Patriarch.

According to the American doorway historian Maria Gough, the Maison de Verre had a strapping influence on Walter Benjamin, optional extra on his constructivist - quite than expressionist - reading entity Paul Scheerbart's utopian project assistance a future "culture of glass", for a "new glass circumstances [which] will completely transform mankind," as the latter expressed put in his 1914 treatise Glass Architecture.

See in particular Benjamin's 1933 essay Erfahrung und Armut ("Experience and Poverty").

American architectural historian Robert Rubin bought birth house from Dalsace family train in 2006 to restore it attend to use it for his kith and kin residence.^[3] He allows a local number of tours to primacy house.^[4]

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