Save Maison Zilveli
Save Maison Zilveli
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Catherine Croft (20th Century Society) and
Why this petition matters
Started by Peter Wyeth
- Save the Maison Zilveli from demolition.
- A masterpiece by Jean Welz, built in Paris in 1933
- Jean Welz's work was a dialogue between Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos, the two leading modernist architectural thinkers and both friends of his.
- Conservation of this unique house could be a model for saving modern architecture, such is the opportunities it presents to a genuine sincere owner.
- "The only avant-garde modernist house in the Paris region" (Tim Benton - Corbusier expert)
- Unchanged since the day it was built, with original furniture seen in 1933 photos
- Threatened with demolition by the proprietor in order to almost double the accommodation.
- A copy that omits the marvellous balcony cannot be sincere.
- Maison Zilveli can be saved, and at a lower cost than the budget for the copy.
- Modern methods of repairing reinforced concrete make saving the house a practical proposition.
- To replace this masterpiece with a pastiche would be a failure of judgement.
- Maison Zilveli is the last house by Jean Welz, making it even more important to save it in its original form (from a brief but intense active period in Paris, from December 1927 to mid 1933).
- Read further in this article on Maison Zilveli by Peter Wyeth.
LINK: https://www.iconichouses.org/icons-at-risk/maison-zilveli - 'The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz' https://doppelhouse.com/jean-welz/ - due June 2022.
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