Architecture
Dominique Amouroux / Yves Gellie / Paul-Hervé Parsy
Antti Lovag (1920-2014) was a Hungarian architect who specialized in “bubble” houses and what he called “organic” architecture. He built very few buildings (fewer than ten). The Maison Bernard, on the French Riviera, is one of the finest examples of his work and tells the story of a fascinating relationship between the client, Pierre Bernard, and the architect. The book retraces this relationship and gives prominence to the photographs of Yves Gellie.
It was with the construction of the Maison Bernard that Antti Lovag truly defined his ideas about what a house should be, while simultaneously putting them into practice. Philosophical conception, construction method (abandoning plans in favor of models), spatial and material themes…
Today, the house has been renovated with the intervention of architect Odile Decq in collaboration with Isabelle Bernard (Pierre Bernard’s daughter), respecting the architect’s choices: the specifications and the decision to renovate through color, to employ artisans as Antti Lovag and Pierre Bernard had done… An endowment fund and artist residencies have been established there.
ANTTI LOVAG, 27×30 cm, 196 pages, approximately 200 four-color reproductions, hardcover
Out of print
