Europatreffen 2011 Newsletter
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Europatreffen 2011 Newsletter
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Newsletter #3: the Rue Mallet-Stevens
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| Newsletter #3: the Rue Mallet-Stevens |
19 May 2012 |
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 Until your coming to Paris for the Europatreffen 2011, Alexandra tells her Paris in a monthly Newsletter that will introduce you alternately the Seine River, the Baron Haussmann or the "Rue Mallet-Stevens".
You will be able to find all articles in this newsletter or in previous editions on a blog on the Europatreffen 2011 website.
 Paris Blog
| The Rue Mallet-Stevens |
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 Architect and designer strongly influenced by Joseph Hoffmann and by Wienerwerkstätte (Vienna Workshops), Robert Mallet-Stevens, is in France before 1914 and before Le Corbusier, his exact contemporary, one of the first to react against the frills of modern style and one of the first to promote an universal architecture rejecting the scenery and the regionalism.
Like Le Corbusier, he opted for the concrete frame, denied the benefit of traditional window glass panel, extols the open plan and smooth the geometric volumes. In the street in Paris that bears his name, he creates an ideal modern city...
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| Cultural walk to explore the 16th arrondissement |
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Located on the right bank of the Seine River, the west of Paris' 16th arrondissement is primarily residential. However, the area attracts many tourists thanks to its various museums and remarkable places like the Trocadéro and the Bois de Boulogne. This is also the district where you find the highest number of embassies and consulates. Moreover, because of its recent development and its distance from the center of Paris, it is the greenest borough in the capital.
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