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Avenue Winston Churchill 110, mosaic frieze (photo 2017)
Avenue Winston Churchill 110, mosaic frieze (photo 2017)
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Avenue Winston Churchill 110, view from the garden (ca. 1910)
Avenue Winston Churchill 110, view from the garden (ca. 1910)
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Avenue Winston Churchill 110, mosaic frieze (photo 2017)
Avenue Winston Churchill 110, mosaic frieze (photo 2017)
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Avenue Winston Churchill 110, façades on the avenue side (ca. 1910)
Avenue Winston Churchill 110, façades on the avenue side (ca. 1910)
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Avenue Winston Churchill 110, view from the Avenue de Longchamp roundabout (ca. 1910)
Avenue Winston Churchill 110, view from the Avenue de Longchamp roundabout (ca. 1910)
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Avenue Winston Churchill 110, restored mosaic panel (photo 2017).
Avenue Winston Churchill 110, restored mosaic panel (photo 2017).
While specialising in hospital architecture, Jean-Baptiste Dewin was also a distinguished designer of middle-class homes in fashionable neighbourhoods. A stone's throw from his own house in Avenue Molière, he designed this open villa by the Longchamp roundabout, on the corner of Avenue Longchamp (both renamed after Winston Churchill in 1945) and Rue Marianne.
The property had two separate entrances, one on each thoroughfare: a grand one for the family and their guests, and a functional one for the staff. This set the tone for the rest of the design.
Leaving the tip of the plot for a small garden enclosed by an openwork fence, the architect fitted together a number of structures and spaces to create a butterfly-shaped layout. The family's living rooms were in the centre, with the reception spaces on the avenue side and the service rooms on the street side. The shape and style of the openings, the type of materials used and the presence or absence of decoration reinforced the hierarchy of the different façades.
Inspired by geometric Art Nouveau, Dewin developed a distinctive architectural language of his own. The mosaic panels featuring geometric and animal designs were restored in 2017.
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The property had two separate entrances, one on each thoroughfare: a grand one for the family and their guests, and a functional one for the staff. This set the tone for the rest of the design.
Leaving the tip of the plot for a small garden enclosed by an openwork fence, the architect fitted together a number of structures and spaces to create a butterfly-shaped layout. The family's living rooms were in the centre, with the reception spaces on the avenue side and the service rooms on the street side. The shape and style of the openings, the type of materials used and the presence or absence of decoration reinforced the hierarchy of the different façades.
Inspired by geometric Art Nouveau, Dewin developed a distinctive architectural language of his own. The mosaic panels featuring geometric and animal designs were restored in 2017.
