Villa Cavrois

The Villa Cavrois is the stylish Modernist house of the industrialist Paul Cavrois, owner of five textile factories at Roubaix, which was once known as the ‘city of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised in high-quality fabrics for the fashion industry of Paris. When he built his house he departed from traditional bourgeois villa architecture and chose the French Modernist architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. Completed in 1932, the house was built of brick, steel and glass without ornament. It featured clearly expressed functional volumes, roof terraces, large windows, central heating, telephones, lifts and other modern equipment. Mallet-Stevens designed all the furniture in Modernist style. The building was set in a geometrical parkland with lawns, straight paths and a reflecting pool. The villa was derelict for many years. It has been restored to its original condition by the local authority and the Centre des Monument Nationaux.

Villa Cavrois
60 avenue John Fitzgerald Kennedy
59170 Croix
France
+33 (0) 320 - 653190
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