THE VILLA SAVOYE, POISSY , FRANCE

Last of Purist Houses 

1928-1937
"the icon of bygone modernity"

LIVING ROOM LOOKING TO GARDEN TERRACE

"...the outside always an inside....the hanging garden onto which the sliding plate-glass walls of living room and other rooms of the house  open freely: thus the sun is everywhere, in the very heart of the house"

Transitioning to the exterior , the ramp leads to  SOLARIUM, from which entire site can be seen"

EXTERIOR

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NOGUCHI II

AKARI SHINES LIKE THE LIGHT OF SUN...THEY SEEM TO OFFER MAGICAL UNFOLDING AWAY FROM THE SPRITUAL WORLD.

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It was on a trip to gifu, Japan  in 1951 that Noguchi created

his first Akari designs, inspired by the traditional lanterns

illuminating night fishing on the Nagara River. He called 

these works Akari, a Japanese term meaning light as a

illumination, but also impliying weightlessness.