The villa-artist studio, built in 1929 by Marcel Zielinski (1885-1947) is an ode to modernism. A small garden planted with bamboo, a fig tree and honeysuckle leads to a flight of stairs, which precedes the entrance to the almost 300-m² villa. Facing southeast, southwest and north, it includes a garden level, where a majestic sycamore stands, and two floors built over a ground floor. The smooth façades, punctuated by ribbon windows on every level, have conserved their original appearance, as have all of its interior volumes, spacious and understated, with skilfully rendered graphic décor from that era in ceramic, wrought iron and carved wood.
On the ground floor and second floor, three studios with a floor-to-ceiling height of 3 to 4 metres are bathed in light by glass windows and ceilings. The house’s entrance opens onto a foyer, which leads to a triple living room, extended by the first artist studio, which has a view over the neighbouring villas and the surrounding vegetation, then a kitchen and its pantry. Next, a flight of tinted concrete stairs leads to the first floor, with two bedrooms and a wainscoted library, a bathroom and a spacious patio. On the second floor, the last two artist studios, topped with a glass roof, provide access to the balcony and a second bathroom. On the garden level, a verdant courtyard is encircled by service rooms: laundry room, shower room and a spacious garage.

The Villa-Artist Studio

Built at the end of the 1920s for Léon Jallot (1874-1967), a French sculptor and furniture maker, it perpetuates the avant-garde spirit of the modern movement and is treated like a unique object where simplicity and austerity are of the essence: a cubic volume magnified by ribbon windows with their original metalwork and the glass walls and ceilings of its three artist studios, facing north, southeast and southwest. Behind the wrought-iron gate, the small front garden paved with irregular stones and planted with bamboo, a fig tree and honeysuckle echoes, to the north, another garden, used as a courtyard, but which provides a very interesting opportunity to create a shade garden, the coolness of which would be welcome in the summer months. On the upper floors, the patio and balcony adorn the artistic residence with flowering and convivial spaces. The smooth façade announces its interior repertory, which plays with the vertical and horizontal lines of the black window and doorframes, the high ceilings in the artist studios and living spaces, which are decorated with original geometric stoneware and wrought-iron décor.

The ground floor
The front wooden door opens onto a spacious gallery with a fantastic glass and wrought-iron double door, the geometric style of which was inspired by the De Stijl movement. A vast living space and dining room of nearly 53 m², with a floor-to-ceiling height of almost 3.20 metres, has white walls and a stoneware tile floor, hidden under linoleum. Following on from here, the first artist studio, with approximately 28 m², has a floor-to-ceiling height of 4 metres and its metal-framed glass wall provides a glimpse of the foliage in the courtyard-garden. The kitchen and its pantry have cupboards with moulded wood doors, while the floor, in ochre and beige chequered ceramic tiles, evokes the home’s original style, just like the one in the entrance hall, where the ceramic tiles’ layout and colour were the subject of particular attention, both in terms of their geometric style and the harmony of their neutral colour tones. A luminous tinted concrete staircase leads to the upper floors.
The first floor
The landing leads to a library room upholstered with mahogany shelves, then two bedrooms with hardwood floors, generously bathed in light by ribbon windows with metalwork. The wooden patio, of nearly 24 m², extends off one of these bedrooms, providing coolness to the entire floor. In the bathroom, the walls and floor are covered in a singular design of original grey-green ceramic tiles.
The second floor
With nearly 3.20 metres from floor to ceiling, the glass roofs and metal-framed ribbon windows diffuse an intense light in both studios, with approximately 29 m² and 31 m², respectively, which open onto a balcony towards the landscaped views of the street. The windows look out at the sky, the neighbouring villas and, like the first floor, towards the foliage in the courtyard-garden. A bathroom with an ornamental white ceramic tile pattern completes this level.
The garden level
At the foot of the courtyard-garden, with approximately 25 m² and located above a cellar, a flight of stairs and a spacious garage of nearly 38 m² provide access to different service rooms such as a laundry room, shower room, furnace room and storage space.