Tapestries, drawings, ceramics… The rebirth of the Lurçat House-Workshop

One hundred years after its construction, and after five years of work at a cost of 2 million euros, Jean Lurçat's house-workshop reopens its doors. High and furnished, it offers a direct encounter with this 20th ^- century artist famous for his tapestries - including his large-scale The Song of the World - but also for drawings, paintings, and ceramics.

You have to go to Villa Seurat , in the 14th ^{arrondissement} of Paris, a cul-de-sac where several houses were built by Jean's brother, to discover this place of memory. The white building with right angles, large bay windows, and a terrace, breathes the modernist architecture of the 1920s. Past the black ironwork gate, small rooms are spread over three floors, furnished in an efficient manner, bearing the artist's style. Simplicity of volumes, furniture "in just response to its destination" , according to Lurçat's expression, the house is intended to be a total work of art