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House Mietschaninoff à Boulogne-Billancourt dans les Hauts-de-Seine

House Mietschaninoff

    5 Rue des Arts
    92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Private property

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1924-1925
Construction of the villa
15 janvier 1975
Registration for Historic Monuments
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Fronts and blankets: inscription by decree of 15 January 1975

Key figures

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) - Architect Co-conceptor of the villa.
Pierre Jeanneret - Architect Cousin and partner of Le Corbusier.
Oscar Miestchaninoff - Sponsor and sculptor Owner and user of the workshop.
Jacques Lipchitz - Sculptor nearby Initiator of the subdivision project.

Origin and history

The Maison Mietschaninoff, located in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a modernist villa built between 1924 and 1925 by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Ordered by sculptor Oscar Miestchaninoff, it is part of a small subdivision and is distinguished by its rounded tower housing a staircase. A bridge, planned on the first floor, was to link this house to a third villa never built.

The villa, with its workshop on the ground floor, is next to that of the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, at the origin of the project. Despite some minor interior changes, the building retained its original condition. Its facades and roofs were inscribed in the Historical Monuments by decree of 15 January 1975, stressing its architectural importance.

This project illustrates the influence of the modernist movement in France in the inter-war period, marked by collaborations between artists and architects. The villa embodies a synthesis between functionality (integrated workshop) and formal innovation (cylindrical tower, unfinished bridge), typical of the work of Le Corbusier and Jeanneret at this time.

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