Pavillon Keller, Protected building in Livet-et-Gavet, France
Pavillon Keller is a house in Livet-et-Gavet built in two stages: a main stone building of 1912 designed by architects Jean Benoit and Marius Jean Bonnat, then a 1930 concrete extension on piles above the Romanche. Its floors total 1,740 m² of floor space, and the owner lived on the top floor.
The pavilion was designed after Charles Albert Keller and Henri Leleux set up their workshops in the Romanche valley in 1907. Architects Jean Benoit and Marius Jean Bonnat built the main stone building in 1912; in 1930 a concrete extension on piles was added above the river. Keller died in 1940, and the property passed to his son, who left Livet in 1967 and sold the installations to EDF in 1973.
The house appears in Mathieu Kassovitz's 2000 film Les Rivières Pourpres, adapted from Jean-Christophe Grangé's novel. It also features in the 2022 comedy Loin du périph with Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte, and in Para One's 2021 film Spectre: Sanity, Madness & The Family. Alessandro Perissinotto set part of his thriller Une petite histoire sordide there.
The pavilion stands in Livet-et-Gavet along the Romanche valley road, and its successive sales in 1983, 1988, 2004 and summer 2026 left renovation plans unfinished, so it is not a visitable site. View the stone facade and the concrete extension on stilts from the public road; do not attempt to enter the grounds.
In 1930 Charles Albert Keller added a concrete extension on piles above the Romanche and set up his "bureau promontoire" there, a projecting office from which he looked down on his own workshops and factories. The house also appears in Mathieu Kassovitz's film Les Rivières Pourpres and in Loin du périph (2021).
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