A “modern” housing estate
The project was realized thanks to Jean Lurçat's network: Marcel Gromaire, Edouard Goerg, Pierre-André Bertrand, Arnold Huggler, Just Bachelet and Chana Orloff and later Robert Couturier also came to live there. André Lurçat receives the majority of orders.
To the eight artists' villas and private mansions that he built between 1924 and 1928 were added the house-studio of Chana Orloff by Auguste Perret in 1926 and the house of the sculptor Robert Couturier by Jean-Charles Moreux in 1938. This set of houses constitutes one of the first areas with the aesthetic claimed by the avant-garde.
The building, which will be named Villa Seurat, will host other important artists such as Dali, Jean Vilar, Mario Prassinos, Chaïm Soutine, Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller.
