Foundation Le Corbusier
pioneer of the Modern Movement (also known as the International style or simply Modernism) and a gifted architect. He designed some flawless villas, such as the ones here, which despite seeming hard with their cold materials, actually contain warm and inviting interiors. His theories on urbanism, however, were less successful and have spawned many a damaging imitator, particularly his Plan Voisin, the 1920s’ proposal to flatten the historic heart of Paris and replace it with massive tower blocks.
Le Corbusier’s villas were part of a series of ‘machines for living’ that are dotted throughout the Paris suburbs. These two show the architect’s trademark white concrete cubist forms, strip windows and stainless steel furniture. Both of these houses also stand on stilts.
Foundation Le Corbusier
Opening times: 1.30–6pm Mon 10am–12.30pm, 1.30–6pm Tue–Fri (to 5pm Fri),
10am–5pm Sat (Villa La Roche only)
Closed public hols, August, 24 Dec–2 Jan
Website:
www.fondationlecorbusier.frTel: 01. 42 88 41 53
Musée Marmottan – Claude Monet
Metro: La Muette
Leave La Muette metro station and follow Chausée de la Muette. You will come to a little park and the Musée Marmottan will be on the other side of it, at No. 2 rue Louis Boilly. This museum is dedicated to the work of Claude Monet and is housed in the 19th-century mansion of art historian Paul Marmottan, who bequeathed the house and its priceless collections of Renaissance, Consular and First Empire paintings and furniture to the Institut de France in 1932. The
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