The building was designed in the International Style. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
In the 1920s and 1930s, Paris was the epicenter of artistic and cultural creation and innovation. Many of the most prolific artists, architects, and designers called Paris home during the time. Among those was avant-garde Russian sculptor Oscar Miestchaninoff.
In 1925, Miestchaninoff commissioned renowned architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret to design a family home and studio in the ritzy artists’ enclave of Boulogne-Billancourt, located in Paris’s 16th arrondissement. The sculptor lived here with his family and worked out of the ground-floor studio. It is incredibly rare to find a preserved historic gem from pre-war Europe and is even rarer that one comes to the market. The yellow-colored, three-story home studio was listed as a historic monument in 1975.
Oscar Miestchaninoff lived in the home with his family. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
The home features modern curves. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
Listed for $5.195 million by French real estate agency Architecture de Collection, the Miestchaninoff House-Studio spans three levels and encompasses 2,600 square feet with four bedrooms, three baths, an office, terrace, garden, and studio. The building was designed in the International Style, which is a utilitarian and minimalist style of design with elements like flat roofs, glass, steel, reinforced concrete, and functional layouts, as well as elements of Purism. The yellow-colored residence, which sits behind private gates, features a geometric-style silhouette with modern curves, a cantilevered staircase, a rooftop terrace, and an elevated walkway between the main building and the nearby outbuilding that frame a south-facing central garden. The secondary, two-story building contains the artist’s studio and an additional bedroom. Le Corbusier purposely placed the studio on the ground floor for the handling of sculptures and other large-format art pieces. There’s also a garage on the property.
The ground floor houses a large reception area with double-height ceilings, a kitchen with direct garden access, and an office. The second floor has a bedroom with built-in storage and a shower room, while the third floor has a lounge with a garden-facing terrace, a primary suite, dressing room, bath, and office. The 1,076-square-foot rooftop terrace overlooks the charming neighborhood, which once housed other Purist-style residences designed by Le Corbusier for fellow artists including Jacques Lipchitz and Marc Chagall.
The art studio. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
Each room retains oversized windows that flood each space with natural light. The current owners have not only kept the home in pristine condition, but they’ve even added custom-made furniture and built-in pieces that adhere to the home’s proportions. Though updated for modern living, the home looks delightfully stuck in time and is an incredible piece of architectural and artistic history where Miestchaninoff completed some of his most important work.
Le Corbusier’s Miestchaninoff House-Studio is listed by Architecture de Collection for $5.195 million.
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The home was listed as a historic monument 1975. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
The home has four bedrooms. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
The third floor features an office. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
An elevated walkway between the main building and the nearby outbuilding. Photo: Manuel Bougot/FLC-ADAGP 2024
