The building material is experiencing a well-deserved renaissance, with architects and designers deploying the blocks in ...

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The client for Chareau’s Maison de Verre was a gynaecologist and the building was an expression of hygiene, modern efficiency and decorum – clear, clean and light – but not transparent. Housden ...

Two—Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea and Pierre Chareau’s La Maison de Verre—were even tapped twice. If the houses these designers chose weren’t surprising, the reasons they chose them were.

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Jane Baker (Eva)Sandrine Pernelle (Laura Maubert)Élisabeth Buré (Mme Aubert)Hélène Shirley (La cliente)Linda Dull (Mme Joyce)Virginie Caillat (Mitsou)Guy Royer (Dany Boy)Gil Lagardère (Yann ...

La Maison follows two illustrious, dysfunctional, and powerful rival families as they vie for dominance in the world of high ...

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One of its effects was to focus attention on the clothes themselves, created by a team and credited to Maison Martin Margiela, aka MMM. And what intriguing clothes they were: Recall, for instance ...

This project drew inspiration from one of the most enduring glass block masterpieces: the Maison de Verre, a 1930s residence in Paris distinguished by its glass blocks with circles in the center.