Villa La Roseraie

English translation

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History

In the Endoume district, the villa La Roseraie, in fact a small country house with terrace and small garden, was built around 1890. Its owners called upon the Marseille rocaille-worker (from Endoume) Gaëtan Amoletti for the creation of decoration covering the façades and part of the boundary wall and also for a few elements in the garden. On the street side, the decoration draws on the usual themes of false architecture, notably the representation of a false window. On the garden side, a large composition rigorously ordered by false-wood architectural decoration, references, with its wall-pieces and panels sculpted with trophies and flowers, the decorations of Provençal plasterwork of the 18th century; it is in fact the representation of an interior decoration, which serves as a backdrop to the terrace conceived as an open-air dining room. Of particularly careful execution, using both the techniques of sculpture and moulding, this charming decoration constitutes the interest of this small country house whose house-terrace-garden ensemble forms, by its dimensions, its arrangement and by the ornamental themes chosen, a sort of intimate little theatre, a setting for scenes of family life in the countryside.