- En savoir plus
- Les auteurs
- 23 x 28.5 cm
- 208 pages
- 180 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8308-1
- Text in French only
This book allows you to discover, through very diverse buildings, villas, hotels, schools, churches, town halls or casinos, the golden age of modern architecture and Art Deco in the Basque Country. In the 1920s and 1930s, from Bayonne to Anglet, from Hendaye to Bidart, from Biarritz to Guéthary, from Hasparren to Ustaritz, from Urrugne to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, architects, artists and craftsmen competed in wielding their imagination to create architecture that celebrates the joy of living rediscovered after the war. Through period or contemporary photographs and aerial views taken between 1930 and 1950, the reader discovers an original and little-known architectural heritage. Alongside big names such as Mallet-Stevens, Louis Süe and Georges-Henri Pingusson, there are Henri Godbarge, Joseph Hiriart, Georges Tribout and Georges Beau, theoreticians of neoregionalism and forgotten masters of Art Deco in France. These architects hired the best artists and craftsmen of the time: the glassmaker Gruber, the ironworker Schwartz, the interior designer Prou, and Mauméjean for the mosaics and stained glass windows.