Grasse - Villa Norah
- department: Alpes-Maritimes
- Town: Grasse
- naming: Villa Norah
- address: 5 avenue Francis de Crosset
- author: Léon LE BEL (architect)
- date: 1924
- labelling: 28 November 2000
Léon Le Bel was asked in 1924 by Mr. Schlienger, a perfume manufacturer, to carry out work on an existing residence located on the heights of Grasse, the Norah villa. Inspired by regional architecture, the architect added projecting volumes to the old building.
Léon Le Bel (1883-1968) is a Grasse architect who worked mainly in the Alpes-Maritimes, in the interwar period. Author of several villas and hotels, he was also responsible for most of the factories and buildings of the Grasse perfumeries, erected in the 1920s (Parfumerie CAL Saint-Claude, Parfumerie Robertet, Bertrand frères etc.). In the early 1930s he was also the author of the astonishing Oxford Castle in Cannes, in collaboration with Louis Süe.
The Norah villa is built on the northeast edge of the plot, which it dominates. The one-storey central building body is flanked by two higher side bodies, consisting of two floors on the ground floor and covered by a hollow tile roof. The whole constitutes an aggregated and asymmetrical volume, which nevertheless finds coherence. The facades are coated and decorated here and there with glazed tiles, in accordance with local tradition. The facade railings and interior ironwork were the work of Richard Desvallières (1893-1962).
The main facade, to the south, is pierced by numerous arched openings and decorated with an imposing sundial, vestige of the first villa, bearing the inscription «badaud, faire ton chemin, l'heure passe».
The garden, a true green setting, was also redesigned in the 1920s. A «great degree» paved, alternating calades and terracotta bricks, crossing from west to east.
- Editor: DRAC PACA, Eve Roy, 2018
Source:
General inventory of cultural heritage PACA, 2007 survey
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