Le Lavandou - Villa Lou Paradou
- department: Var
- town: Le Lavandou
- naming: Villa Lou Paradou
- address: 17 avenue Van Rysselberghe - Saint-Clair
- author: Octave VAN RYSSELBERGHE (architect)
- date: 1905-1914
- protection: unprotected building
- label patrimoine XXe: Commission régionale du patrimoine et des sites du 28 November 2000
The Belgian architect Octave Van Rysselberghe (1855-1929) built several villas in Lavandou at the beginning of the 20th century, including one for himself, around 1906.
The Lou Paradou villa is distinguished from the others notably by its much more sober appearance and the research that the architect has demonstrated to create a complete and homogeneous composition, Going so far as to design its furniture or door handles in the spirit of a total creation close to Art Nouveau. The house has a practically square plan, and has one floor. It is covered with a hollow tile roof, and decorated with a genoese, in accordance with local practice. The facades are symmetrical, they are coated and pierced with very geometric openings and simplified forms, as for example the "bow window" in the kitchen (on the ground floor) or the loggia continues, on the south facade. The interior was entirely designed by Octave Van Rysselberghe, and the many fine carpentry, made in a style reminiscent of the "Arts and Crafts" movement, link this realization to the architect’s Nordic architectural culture.
- Editor: Eve Roy, drac paca crmh, 2005