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 Villa Stein in Vaucresson dans les Hauts-de-Seine

Patrimoine classé
Villa
Patrimoine de vilégiature
Maison d'architecte
Hauts-de-Seine

Villa Stein in Vaucresson

    17 Rue du Professeur Victor Pauchet
    92420 Vaucresson
Photo de Villa Stein in Vaucresson

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1927-1928
Construction of the villa
Années 1960
Conversion into a building
1975
Registration for historical monuments
30 mars 2017
Final classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The following parts of the Stein-de-Monzie villa: the facades and roofs of the former guardian ' s lodge, the old fence, the plot with its garden, the facades and roofs of the villa and its former service staircase, as delimited on the plan annexed to the decree (see AI 177): classification by order of 30 March 2017

Key figures

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) - Architect Designer of the Stein villa.
Pierre Jeanneret - Collaborating architect Project co-author.
Michael Stein - Sponsor and owner American industrialist, art collector.
Sarah Stein - Sponsor and owner Wife of Michael Stein.
Gabrielle de Monzie - Sponsor and owner Stein friend, cohabitant.

Origin and history

The Stein villa, also known as the Monzie villa or "Les Terrasses", is an emblematic house located at 17 rue du Professeur-Victor-Pauchet in Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine. Built between 1927 and 1928 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, it embodies the purest period of the architect, marked by white facades and geometric lines. Sponsored by the couple Michael and Sarah Stein, as well as their friend Gabrielle de Monzie, this villa was designed to house two families, with common spaces except rooms. It is now considered the most expensive house designed by Le Corbusier between the two wars.

The Stein villa is inspired by five points of modern architecture: stilts, roof terrace, free plan, blindfolded windows and free façade. It also includes classic elements, such as the Villa Foscari in Palladio, while integrating innovations such as staircase terraces and a panoramic platform evoking the ships. Inside, the walls, non-carrying, were designed to showcase Stein's modern art collection, with niches dedicated to paintings. The villa was listed as a historical monument in 1975, and then listed in 2017.

Turned into a building divided into five apartments in the late 1960s, the Stein villa was also used as a setting for Edward Molinaro's Oscar film, with Louis de Funès. Its architecture, mixing concrete and glass, and its stripped aesthetics make it a major testimony of modern movement. The villa is protected for its facades, roofs, service stairway, as well as its garden and former guardian's lodge, reflecting its heritage importance.

Le Corbusier designed this villa as a reinterpretation of the Pavilion of the New Spirit, presented at the exhibition of the Decorative Arts of 1925. It is part of the series of "white villas", alongside other achievements such as the Savoye villa in Poissy. Light is omnipresent, and vacuum, integrated as an architectural element, strengthens the harmony of spaces. The Stein villa thus illustrates the puristic ideal: simple and orderly forms, generating balance and legibility.

External links

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