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Michael Carapetian, 100 x Maison de verre, Brinkmann und Bose, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-940048-30-1; Nicolai Ouroussoff's article in The New York Times, "The Best House in Paris", 26 August 2007; Article: "A Serious Point of Departure" - La Maison de la Rue St. Guillaume "Paris’s Luminous Secret" WSJ Article, 18 July 2009; Video tour of Maison ...
In 1920, after the War ended, Henri de Rothschild sold the hôtel for the equivalent of today's €1,067,143, to the Cercle de l'Union interalliée, a private social and dining club. The Cercle continues to use the hôtel as their clubhouse to this day.
Risquons-Tout (French pronunciation: [ʁiskɔ̃ tu]) is a hamlet of Wallonia in the municipality and district of Mouscron, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium on the border with France. It is primarily known for the Risquons-Tout incident , in which a group of Belgian émigrés entered the country carrying arms in an attempt to ...
The lot located at 904 North Crescent Drive, was at one time the site of silent movie star Gloria Swanson's estate. She had purchased the 22 room (5 bath) home in 1922 from its original owner, the inventor of the double-edge safety razor , King C. Gillette who had in 1901 founded the Gillette Company in Boston , Massachusetts .
The Maison de l’Art nouveau, 1895. The Maison de l'Art Nouveau ("House of New Art"), abbreviated often as L'Art Nouveau, and known also as Maison Bing for the owner, was a gallery opened on 26 December 1895, by Siegfried Bing at 22 rue de Provence, Paris. [1] The building was designed by the architect Louis Bonnier (1856–1946). [2]
Maison et Objet [1] is a major French trade fair for interior design. Held bi-annually in Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, [ 2 ] it has been described as "among the 3 most important European events for interior design ... a huge collection of innovation and talent all in one place."
Maisons Jaoul are a celebrated pair of houses in the upmarket Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1954–56. They are among his most important post-war buildings and feature a rugged aesthetic of unpainted cast concrete "béton brut" and roughly detailed brickwork.
The Plan Voisin was a planned redevelopment of Paris designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1925. The redevelopment was planned to replace a large area of central Paris, on the Right Bank of the River Seine. Although it was never implemented, the project is one of Le Corbusier's most well known; its principles inspired a number of ...