Description
A contemporary duplex in an industrial building
This splendid loft sits atop the former furniture store built in the 1930s by architects Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods. The top floor of this remarkable industrial building (now a listed building) has been carefully converted into a contemporary duplex with terraces.
The 140 m² second floor features a large, light-filled, fully-glazed living space with a beautiful exposed concrete structure, a bedroom and bathroom, and two terraces, including a 20 m² terrace on the south-facing side. The first floor features another bedroom, a shower room and a kitchen/dining area opening onto a magnificent 120 m² open-air terrace.
Located in a quiet area close to the Buttes Chaumont park, the apartment benefits from triple exposure and panoramic views over Paris.
A very special loft
Character, breathtaking views over Paris, light, space, terraces, absolute calm and quality surroundings characterize this exceptional loft.
Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods
Architects Eugène Beaudouin (1898-1983) and Marcel Lods (1891-1978) both graduated from and taught at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Members of the Union des Artistes modernes (UAM) in the 1930s, they chose prefabricated materials. Their work, influenced by the research of Lods, a fervent proponent of industrialization, occupies a unique place in France’s technological avant-garde.
Partners from 1923 to 1940, Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods built numerous housing units in the Ile-de-France region. Their projects included the Cité du Champ des Oiseaux in Bagneux (1930-1939), the Cité de la Muette in Drancy (1931-1934), an open-air school in Suresnes (1934-1935), a factory and housing complex in Moy (1935), the Buc aeroclub (with Jean Prouvé, 1938) and the Maison du peuple – marché couvert in Clichy (with Jean Prouvé and Vladimir Bodiansky, 1937-1939).
This furniture storage facility was built in 1933 by Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods for Odoul movers. The building is both functional and modern in terms of the materials used (concrete and brick) and its uncluttered, geometric massing – a modernity sought after to attract customers. The reinforced-concrete-framed building featured large open floors and a freight elevator that took trucks directly to the upper floors. The building is now listed on the “Inventaire supplémentaire des monuments historiques”.
