Maison Louis Carré France: Alvar Aalto House
Maison Louis Carré France, Alvar Aalto French House, Building Design, Architect
Maison Louis Carré, France
French Alvar Aalto Architecture: Modern home by celebrated Modern Finnish Architect
9 Aug 2019
Maison Louis Carré
Architect: Alvar Aalto
Dates built: 1956-1959/63
Location: Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, Yvelines department, north-central France
In June 1959, the French art dealer and collector Louis Carré moved with his third wife Olga into the house designed by Alvar Aalto in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, some 40 km southwest of Paris. Combining architecture, furniture and landscape, Maison Louis Carré is the architect?s only remaining building in France and one of his most remarkable private houses.
View of the stairs on the south side
photograph © Collection Maison Louis Carré
The Encounter
Louis Carré and Alvar Aalto had met three years earlier at the Venice Biennale in the summer of 1956, where Aalto opened his Finnish Pavilion. The architect, in the full maturity of his art, and the successful gallerist, respected defender of modern art, immediately got along well together. They were of the same generation and, as Carré put it himself, they had ?both a rather universal idea of art? (interview with Irmelin Lebeer, 1967, published partially in Galerie Louis Carré. Histoire et Actualité 2000).
In 1955, the gallerist had purchased 21 farmland plots in Bazoches, opposite his friend Jean Monnet?s estate, with the intention to build a residence where he could both live a...
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