Beisteguis Apartment
(Champs-Élysées, Paris, France) 1929- 1931
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The garden room The periscope
The terraced gardens, with glass panels in The garden room with view the floor letting light into the lower-level
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#INTERIORITY
Beisteguis Apartment
(Champs-Élysées, Paris, France) 1929- 1931
The Beistegui apartment was commissioned by Carlos (Charles) de Beistegui and designed by Le Corbusier. It was an uninhabited space where Beistegui hosted many of his infamous party for Paris’ Elite. ‘A surrealist conception of interior decoration. How otherwise should we explain the fact that an eighteenth-century portrait in oils, that one would normally expect to find hanging in the principal room of a flat, is exhibited on the concrete wall of the roof garden’ (Watt 1936). ‘Le Corbusier configured the interiors to be playful and at the flick of a switch the space would transform and open up to the city. Electronically activated walls and doors altered the shape of the rooms as they moved across the floor. The Chandelier could be retracted into the celling, allowing films to be projected on to the walls.’ (Brooker, 2013)
By precisely orchestrating furniture and using sensual interactions like the periscope and retracting chandelier, gave the space a inner character.
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Bibliography:
Brooker, G. (2013) Key interiors since 1900. London: Laurence King Publishing.
Watt, A. (1936) ‘Fantasy on the Roofs of Paris’, Architectural review. p. 156
