Pierre Chareau - La Maison de Verre. "in Detail"
21/06/2011.
by Not Made TV. [VIDEO]
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
«La Maison de verre» by Pierre Chareau, built between 1928 and 1931, rue Saint-Guillaume, at París.
El cuarto de baño con paneles móviles que separan la ducha y la bañera.
La biblioteca con estantería metálica tiene una escalera que se desliza a lo largo de los estantes. Los armarios y estantes fueron diseñadas como las pantallas de la segunda planta.
Salón de la Maison de Verre , donde se realizaban las recepciones, con un piano de cola Erard.
La escalera principal cubierta en una serie de pantallas.
A passage overlooking the garden.
Pierre Chareau, Maison de Verre, 1928-1932. Fotografía © Mark Lyon
Elevation.
Ground floor plan.
1st Floor plan.
2nd Floor plan
Previous plan.
Under construction.
Photogrpah courtesy Architectural Press Archive from RIBA Collections
The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of home décor. The primary materials used were steel, glass, and glass block. Some of the notable "industrial" elements included rubberized floor tiles, bare steel beams, perforated metal sheet, heavy industrial light fixtures, and mechanical fixtures.
The design was a collaboration among Pierre Chareau (a furniture and interiors designer), Bernard Bijvoet (a Dutch architect working in Paris since 1927) and Louis Dalbet (craftsman metalworker). Much of the intricate moving scenery of the house was designed on site as the project developed. The external form is defined by translucent glass block walls, with select areas of clear glazing for tranparency. Internally, spatial division is variable by the use of sliding, folding or rotating screens in glass, sheet or perforated metal, or in combination. Other mechanical components included an overhead trolley from the kitchen to dining room, a retracting stair from the private sitting room to Mme Dalsace's bedroom and complex bathroom cupboards and fittings.
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PIERRE CHAREAU
Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) was an inventor, an innovator who blended materials with extreme attention to detail. If one idea could sum up Pierre Chareau's oeuvre, it would be, as he said himself, “creating with passionate contemplation to best satisfy the needs of our reason and our higher emotions, merged into an admirable beauty of living.” French architect and designer, credited for building his first house in France, made of steel and glass, the Maison de Verre. Chareau was born in Le Havre, France and went to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, by the time he was 17. His designs are characterized by their complex nature. He was a member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne.
