Maison Louis Carré

Alvar Aalto Architect. Maison Louis Carré 1956-63. Vol. 20

Esa Laaksonen, Ásdís Ólafsdóttir and Antoine Terrasse

After the Villa Mairea, the Maison Louis Carré is the most carefully executed and detailed of the private houses designed by Alvar Aalto. Built for a wealthy Parisian art dealer, the house is situated in the small village of Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, in the historic rural landscape near Versailles and Chartres. Although the Maison Louis Carré is an expression of Aalto at his most mature, it also embraces the youthful architectonic ideas of his second wife, Elissa Aalto.
The book also presents other works produced by Aalto's office contemporaneous with the Maison Louis Carré design.

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