Villa Cavrois in Croix is a large modernist mansion built in 1932 by French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from Roubaix active in the textile industry. The villa is 60 meters long, it has 3800 m² including 1840 m² habitables and 830 m² of terraces and a garden of 17600 m² (originally 5 ha). The large modern mansion was organized to offer the best possible lifestyle to the nine members of the family and to facilitate the daily work of the household staff. Mallet-Stevens’ work was not limited to the design of the building, he also designed the interior decoration and the gardens which surround the house.
In 1987 the villa was sold to a real estate company who wanted to demolish it and divide the land into plots. However, the villa was abandoned and quickly looted, ransacked and occupied by squatters. The French State, through its Ministry of Culture, purchased the building in 2001, and, in 2004, restoration work commenced on the exterior and the reinstatement of the internal features. The villa opened to the public on 13 June 2015, after a 23 million € restoration.
joaoslr says
Villa Cavrois in Croix is a large modernist mansion built in 1932 by French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from Roubaix active in the textile industry. The villa is 60 meters long, it has 3800 m² including 1840 m² habitables and 830 m² of terraces and a garden of 17600 m² (originally 5 ha). The large modern mansion was organized to offer the best possible lifestyle to the nine members of the family and to facilitate the daily work of the household staff. Mallet-Stevens’ work was not limited to the design of the building, he also designed the interior decoration and the gardens which surround the house.
In 1987 the villa was sold to a real estate company who wanted to demolish it and divide the land into plots. However, the villa was abandoned and quickly looted, ransacked and occupied by squatters. The French State, through its Ministry of Culture, purchased the building in 2001, and, in 2004, restoration work commenced on the exterior and the reinstatement of the internal features. The villa opened to the public on 13 June 2015, after a 23 million € restoration.
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Crossposted from /r/ModernistArchitecture .
TheFluffiestOfCows says
Beautiful! Reminds me a lot of the work of the Dutch architect Willem Dudok, also a modernist
Raadhuis Hilversum 1931