Villa Fallet
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- Location
- La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- Year
- 1906
- Typology
- House
- Materials
- Brick, Ceramic, Earth, Glass, Stone, Timber
- Context
- Sapin Style, Modernism, International Style
- Map
- Open location
Villa Fallet is a traditional chalet located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland designed and built by the eighteen-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), who later became better known as Le Corbusier. Jeanneret was teaching himself architecture by going to the library to read about architecture and philosophy, by visiting museums, by sketching buildings, and by constructing them. In 1905, he and two other students, under the supervision of their teacher, René Chapallaz, designed and built his first house, the Villa Fallet, for the engraver Louis Fallet, a friend of another of his teachers, Charles l'Eplattenier. The house is in the Style Sapin, the Swiss variant of Art Nouveau.
