The Dalsace House, or House of Glass (Maison de Verre), private residence on rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1927-1931. Entranceway in the courtyard.
photo Ronald Zoetbrood

photo Ronald Zoetbrood

The Dalsace House, or House of Glass (Maison de Verre), private residence on rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1927-1931.

Private collection / Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris

The Dalsace House, or House of Glass (Maison de Verre), private residence on rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1927-1931. The steel pillars of the structure were painted tomato red and clad with natural stone slabs.

Bernard Bijvoet’s technical drawings from 1927 for the House of Glass.

Archives de Paris, Frankrijk

The Dalsace House, or House of Glass (Maison de Verre), private residence on rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1927-1931 Front façade (cour, courtyard) and rear façade (jardin, garden). This private home and surgery of the gynaecologist Jean Dalsace derives its name from the glass blocks in the façades: briques de verre ‘Névada’. The design was accompanied by a world-famous architectural model that was to highlight the spatial effects of the interior: the Japanese-style garden was depicted by small globs of lead.

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The Dalsace House, or House of Glass (Maison de Verre), private residence on rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1927-1931. Bijvoet drew three floor plans: ground floor (shown here), first floor and second floor. On the lower left he noted: ‘Les mesures inscrites sont approximatives’ (the measurements noted are approximate).

photo Thérèse Bonney, Paris

Golf clubhouse (Club-House du Golf) in Beauvallon, Southern France. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1926-1927 (since renovated). This building was erected using reinforced concrete. Chareau asked Bijvoet to put the finest possible finish on the concrete.

photo Thérèse Bonney, Parijs

Golf clubhouse in Beauvallon, Southern France. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1926-1927. Terrace.

De 8 en Opbouw magazine, 1932

Golf clubhouse in Beauvallon, Southern France. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1926-1927.

Encyclopédie de métiers d'art

Grand Hôtel de Tours, in Tours, Western France. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1927. Function room (salle des fêtes).

Encyclopédie de métiers d'art

Grand Hôtel de Tours, in Tours, Western France. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, 1927. Bar and smoking salon.

photo Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris

Offices of the Société des Lignes Téléphoniques et Télégraphiques (LTT, the French telephone and telegraph company) on rue de la Faisanderie, Paris. Pierre Chareau in collaboration with Bernard Bijvoet, 1932. Entrance hall.

photo Musée des Arts décoratifs, Parijs

Offices of the Société LTT on rue de la Faisanderie, Paris. Pierre Chareau in collaboration with Bernard Bijvoet, 1932. Office 11.

	Bernard Bijvoet (1889-1979) in Paris in the late 1970s.
private collection

photo Spies

photo Spies

Heer and Mevrouw Naessens-Looyen visited the House of Glass in Paris during the 1930s and received a guided tour from Pierre Chareau. After the Second World War, they commissioned Bernard Bijvoet to build a house on their property in the Dutch coastal dunes near Haarlem. Private residence of the Naessens-Looyen family on Zwarteweg, Aerdenhout, Netherlands. Bernard Bijvoet and Gerard Holt, 1949-1950.

	Former technical school (HTS) on Laaghuissingel, Venlo, Netherlands. Bernard Bijvoet and Joost van der Grinten, 1957-1961. The steel pillars stand about 1.6 metres in front of the outside wall, which is constructed of glass blocks and steel framing.
photo Ronald Zoetbrood

	Former technical school (HTS) on Laaghuissingel, Venlo, Netherlands. Bernard Bijvoet and Joost van der Grinten, 1957-1961. Workshops with shed roofs.
photo Ronald Zoetbrood

	Former technical school (HTS) on Laaghuissingel, Venlo, Netherlands. Bernard Bijvoet and Joost van der Grinten, 1957-1961.
photo Ronald Zoetbrood

	Nijmegen City Theatre on Van Schaeck Mathonsingel, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Bernard Bijvoet and Gerard Holt, 1954-1961. Bar.
photo Ronald Zoetbrood

photo Ronald Zoetbrood

Orpheus Cultural Centre on Churchillplein, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Bernard Bijvoet and Gerard Holt, 1961-1965. Hallway area on the mezzanine of the Salle des Pas Perdus (foyer).