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English translation

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History

After the destruction of the city in an Allied bombing in 1945, reconstruction was organized around Claude Ferret, town planner and architect. Modernism touched domestic architecture. In 1952, the new owners called upon architects Pierre Marmouget and Edouard Pinet to build a new house. Construction was completed in 1960, after modifications to the original plans. The building forms a rectangle which ends in a hemicycle to the south. The north part is occupied by a garage above which is a terrace. The west façade arranges different volumes and materials: concrete, glazed rotunda, wooden frames, glass tiles, ironwork. The aerial staircase has its concrete steps resting in their middle on a single beam. It forms one body with the terrace slab resting on pilotis. The entrance door is inscribed in a movement of the rubble stone wall which allows space to be opened up for the hall. Above the winter garden, two bedrooms are surrounded by a balcony whose solid concrete balustrade is topped with a pierced sunshade.