Pierre Cardin 's bubble house by Antti Lovag
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Also Called Palais Bulles (bubbles palace) this house near Cannes was designed by architect Antti Lovag and started to be built from 1975 for French industrialist Pierre Bernard, and sold in 1989 by Sothebys to fashion designer Pierre Cardin.
The house stretches over 1200 m2 , including 10 suites decorated by a different artist for each suite, a reception seating 350 persons, and an outdoor auditorium for 500 persons, plus 8500 m2 of garden.
Antti Lovag
As a child, Antti Lovag was already building igloos in Scandinavia, linked by corridors. He studied naval architecture, and enrolled other courses until he eventually get bored: public works, urbanism and art at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He doesn't have the architect diploma. One of his teachers gave him "a planetary consciousness, and a freedom to think without any regulation". He used to travel and practise the more perilous sports.
According to him, he has never been concerned with aesthetic. The façade results from the inside and the windows are positioned depending on the views and sun. "Deciding what is beautiful and what is ugly, it's fascism."
Antti Lovag has also taught self-construction.
He's the author of four realisations in the French Riviera including one owned by British tycoon Tom Bloxham. The maison du Rouréou in Tourrettes sur Loup is one of the rare houses in France of this period to be registered as an historic monument.
Conception principles (text in French)
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin was born on July 7, 1922 near Venice in a family of French, wealthy wine merchants.
As a child, he was interested in theater, ballet and stage designs. By the age of eight he was already creating dresses for dolls. At 14 years old he began working as an apprentice for a tailor.
Pierre Cardin moved to Paris in 1944 and studied architecture, which may explain why he prefered geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the body form. He worked with Elsa Schiaparelli and eventually became head of Christian Dior. Three years later he founded his own house, in 1950.
The bubble dress was introduced in 1954.
In 1957 he was made an honorary professor at Bunka Fukusoi, Japan.
Pierre Cardin is the first Haute Couture designer to launch a ready-to-wear collection for women, in 1959. For that, he was expelled from the Chambre Syndicale de Haute Couture, and soon re-instated.
Pierre Cardin also owns the ruins of the castle that was once inhabited by the Marquis de Sade, where he organises theatre festivals, and a large palazzo in Venice that was the residence of Giacomo Casanova.
Thierry Bidet - 6/10/09 - Art & Architecture
article (French)
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Also Called Palais Bulles (bubbles palace) this house near Cannes was designed by architect Antti Lovag and started to be built from 1975 for French industrialist Pierre Bernard, and sold in 1989 by Sothebys to fashion designer Pierre Cardin.
The house stretches over 1200 m2 , including 10 suites decorated by a different artist for each suite, a reception seating 350 persons, and an outdoor auditorium for 500 persons, plus 8500 m2 of garden.
Antti Lovag
As a child, Antti Lovag was already building igloos in Scandinavia, linked by corridors. He studied naval architecture, and enrolled other courses until he eventually get bored: public works, urbanism and art at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He doesn't have the architect diploma. One of his teachers gave him "a planetary consciousness, and a freedom to think without any regulation". He used to travel and practise the more perilous sports.
According to him, he has never been concerned with aesthetic. The façade results from the inside and the windows are positioned depending on the views and sun. "Deciding what is beautiful and what is ugly, it's fascism."
Antti Lovag has also taught self-construction.
He's the author of four realisations in the French Riviera including one owned by British tycoon Tom Bloxham. The maison du Rouréou in Tourrettes sur Loup is one of the rare houses in France of this period to be registered as an historic monument.
Conception principles (text in French)
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin was born on July 7, 1922 near Venice in a family of French, wealthy wine merchants.
As a child, he was interested in theater, ballet and stage designs. By the age of eight he was already creating dresses for dolls. At 14 years old he began working as an apprentice for a tailor.
Pierre Cardin moved to Paris in 1944 and studied architecture, which may explain why he prefered geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the body form. He worked with Elsa Schiaparelli and eventually became head of Christian Dior. Three years later he founded his own house, in 1950.
The bubble dress was introduced in 1954.
In 1957 he was made an honorary professor at Bunka Fukusoi, Japan.
Pierre Cardin is the first Haute Couture designer to launch a ready-to-wear collection for women, in 1959. For that, he was expelled from the Chambre Syndicale de Haute Couture, and soon re-instated.
Pierre Cardin also owns the ruins of the castle that was once inhabited by the Marquis de Sade, where he organises theatre festivals, and a large palazzo in Venice that was the residence of Giacomo Casanova.
Thierry Bidet - 6/10/09 - Art & Architecture
article (French)
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