What’s your dream winter hideaway? We’d be very happy to hole up in the Maison de Verre by the French interior and furniture designer Pierre Chareau and Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet—captured here by François Halard. Commissioned by Jean and Annie Dalsace and completed in 1932, the early modern masterpiece occupies the site of an 18th-century hôtel particulier in Paris. The Dalsaces’ brief was extremely specific: to transform the building’s three lower floors, while leaving the top floor, belonging to the couple’s disgruntled neighbours, in tact. Chareau and Bijvoet rose impeccably to the occasion, creating this luminescent facade from glass blocks and steel, housed within the structure’s original framework.
