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  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    Western architecture
    / Europe

    The villa, Les Terrasses, at Garches, France (1927), was a lively play of spatial parallelepipeds (six-sided solid geometric forms the faces of which are parallelograms) ruled by horizontal planes, but his style seemed to culminate in the most famous of his houses, the Villa Savoye at Poissy, France (1929–31). The…

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    The villa, Les Terrasses, at Garches, France (1927), was a lively play of spatial parallelepipeds (six-sided solid geometric forms the faces of which are parallelograms) ruled by horizontal planes, but his style seemed to culminate in the most famous of his houses, the Villa Savoye at Poissy, France (1929–31). The…

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