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- Poissy is one of the oldest royal cities of Île-de-France, birthplace of Louis IX of France and Philip III of France, before being supplanted from the 15th century by Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1561, it was the site of a fruitless Catholic – Huguenot conference, the Colloquy of Poissy.
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Aug 12, 2022 · Villa Savoye is an architectural highlight located in Poissy, a small city with about 40,000 inhabitants on the western outskirts of Paris. This city is in the Yvelines department and has an extensive and remarkable history. It’s the oldest of all Royal cities in the Île-de-France region of France.
Villa Savoye (French pronunciation:) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete. [1] [2]
Oct 27, 2010 · Situated in Poissy, a small commune outside of Paris, Villa Savoye is one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture in the 20th century. Completed in 1929, Le Corbusier's ...
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Feb 24, 2024 · The Villa Savoye, completed in 1931 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Poissy, France, is a landmark in modern architecture and a defining example of the International Style. It is considered one of the 20 th century’s most important contributions to the field and a pioneering embodiment of Le Corbusier’s “five points” of ...
After the outbreak of the Second World War, the Savoye couple took refuge for a time in Poissy, before returning to the provinces in May 1940. The villa was requisitioned by the Germans, who used it as a strategic observation point over the Seine valley and the Ford factories during the occupation.
Under the spell of the house built by Le Corbusier for the Church family in Ville-d’Avray, Pierre and Eugénie Savoye commissioned a contemporary weekend home for their spacious seventeen acre site along the Seine at Poissy, on the Beau Regard heights.
Jun 3, 2014 · Some 33 kilometres outside of Paris, in the town of Poissy, sits a true “design classic”, Villa Savoye. The work of seminal Swiss architect Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye is a constructed experiment,...
