Between Arc de Triomphe and Musée Guimet is a square called Place des Etats Unis.A quiet and residential district of embassies and discreet private residences for wealthy families. But if you carefully listen, you might hear, in the silence, the remains of the parties hosted by Marie Laure de Noailles. Born Bichoffsheim, she was raised…
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Along with Mies Van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret aka Le Corbusier is the inventor of the modern architectural movement in the 1920s. Born in Switzerland, he will first learn watchmaking after his father but will soon start travelling around Europe to discover more. In Paris, in the 1910s, he will work in…
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