Maison Ozenfant, Modernist studio house in 14th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Maison Ozenfant is a corner artist's house at 53 avenue Reille in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, built in the Art Deco "paquebot" style from 1922 to 1924 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for the painter Amédée Ozenfant. The apartment occupies the first floor and the studio the second, lit by a corner glass roof; a spiral staircase runs up one side. It overlooks the square de Montsouris and faces the Montsouris reservoir.
The house was designed between 1922 and 1924 by two pioneering architects for a French painter and became a statement of modernist design for its era. Its construction marked a moment when new building ideas were beginning to reshape how homes were planned and used.
The house shows how a painter could work and live in the same building, with spaces carefully divided to keep daily life separate from artistic work. This way of combining home and studio became a new idea for how people wanted to arrange their houses.
The house is a private residence at 53 avenue Reille and is not open to visitors; its facades and roofs can be seen from the public street and from the square de Montsouris. The corner glazing and the spiral staircase on one side are visible from outside.
The house stands at no. 53 avenue Reille, on a corner facing the Montsouris reservoir and overlooking the square de Montsouris. Its spiral staircase on one side is a detail easy to miss from the street. The façades and roofs were listed as monuments historiques on 15 January 1975.
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