For sale, a house-workshop by Le Corbusier in Boulogne-Billancourt

For sale, a house-workshop by Le Corbusier in Boulogne-Billancourt

Located in the heart “a private and secure hamlet”the 241 square meter house was designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1925 for artists Oscar Miestchaninoff and Jacques Lipchitz. Listed as a Historic Monument in 1975, the radical and purist villa borders the Bois de Boulogne. Visit the architectural gem now on sale by the Architecture de Collection agency.

A special order and a chance encounter

The sculptor Jacques Lipchitz met Le Corbusier by chance, during an art sale in 1921 and asked him, with Oscar Miestchaninoff, to build a house–studio in their image. They then ordered a unique property from the architects Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, which they described as a set “ composed of three buildings to accommodate their living, working and exhibition space “. The house of Lipchitz, which was to be connected by a footbridge to that of Miestchaninoff, was also to be connected to that of the artisan engraver Victor Canale, who ultimately did not join this project. The workshops are then established on the ground floor to benefit from a generous volume and facilitate the handling of the sculptures. Discovery of the estate which is spread over several houses, and its particular interiors.

A modern artist's house