La Villa Sayer : Marcel Breuer À Glanville

In 1972, Babette and Louis Sayer commissioned Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) to build their house in Normandy, near Deauville: a unique and atypical adventure, which resulted in a feat that was as technical as it was poetic, carried out jointly by the American and French offices of the architect, under the direction of Mario Jossa. Nestled in the slope, under a daring white concrete veil, this achievement is the adaptation of an American type for French family life.

This book presents this second home, the only one built in France by the Bauhaus architect who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. It also traces the long career of Marcel Breuer, best known for his tubular steel chairs, but also the author of dozens of public buildings in the United States and Europe, including the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Flaine ski resort.