SANTO SOSPIR M28 and Maria-Elisabeth Niebius for Gestalten

and Maria-Elisabeth Niebius for Gestalten

its industry also preserves a manufacturing process organized according to virtuous patterns

"it might look very simple

Die Architekturhistoriker Wolf Tegethoff und Christoph Hölz skizzieren die Baugeschichten und folgen der Frage nach der Berechtigung von Rekonstruktionen moderner Architektur

SANTO SOSPIR M28 and Maria-Elisabeth Niebius for GestaltenThe Villa Santo Sospir in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat is in no way a Gesamtkunstwerk, and is notably distinguished from the now legendary works of Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier in Cap Martin, a stone's throw away. Far from a manifesto, Cocteau invested a pre existing and unremarkable architecture, then conceived his intervention in the villa through a process of accumulation, mixing memories and objects belonging to Francine Weisweiller or to himself with