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Villa Marguerite is an Art Nouveau style house built in the early 20th century in the garden city of Saurupt Park in Nancy. It was built between 1902 and 1905 by architects Henri Gutton and Joseph Hornecker for Aimé Prost, an engineer and administrator of the Bosserville Salines, who was considered the main contractor. The painter-glassman Joseph Janin realized the stained glass windows, while the company Fournier and Défaut executed the big work. The villa, influenced by Hector Guimard and neo-norman regionalism, is distinguished by its picturesque architecture.

Villa Marguerite is located at 3 rue du Colonel-Renard, in a planned urban complex. Its facades, roofs and fences were listed as historical monuments by order of 4 May 1994. Some parts, such as the campanile and the windows of the stairwell, have now disappeared. This monument illustrates the influence of the Nancy School and the rise of Art Nouveau in the region.

The villa is part of a historical context marked by industrialization and architectural innovation. Nancy, then in full expansion, saw the emergence of garden towns like Saurupt, designed to offer a harmonious living environment. The Villa Marguerite, with its artistic details and landscape integration, reflects this desire to reconcile modernity and aesthetics, typical of the period.

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