Discover an icon of modern architecture
KER DE FRANCE offers you, through the Editions du Patrimoine, the collection Itineraries: collection is an indispensable pocket guide that accompanies the discovery of a site in a pleasant and thorough manner. Today, a beautiful book in Japanese from The National Monuments Center: The Villa Savoye.
Built in Poissy by Le Corbusier, the Villa Savoye - known as Les Heures Claires - is probably the shining symbol of 20th century architecture.
The National Monuments Center preserves, restores, manages, animates and opens to visitors more than 100 national monuments owned by the State and classified as historical monuments. Their vocation is to spread the knowledge of French movable and immovable heritage: architecture, art history and archaeology...
To learn more about The National Monuments Center, click here.