03 — ARTWORK
Villa Les Glycines
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With Henri Gutton (1873–1963), André planned a new suburban development of 28 villas, the Parc de Saurupt in Nancy. He designed the concierge's hut and two houses, Les Roches, for his own use and another, Les Glycines, for Fernbach, an industrialist from Lorraine. Although the former is built in rusticated stonework, while the latter is precisely dressed, the placing of openings in both is informally and asymmetrically arranged according to the location of the internal spaces. The variety of the openings also conveys a picturesqueTerm covering a set of attitudes towards landscape, both real and painted, that flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It indicated an aesthetic approach that found pleasure in roughness and irregularity, and an attempt was made to establish it as a critical category between the 'beautiful' and the 'Sublime'. Picturesque scenes were thus neither serene (like the beautiful) nor awe-inspiring (like the Sublime), but full of variety, curious details, and interesting textures — medieval ruins were quintessentially Picturesque. Natural scenery tended to be judged in terms of how closely it approximated to the paintings of favoured artists such as Gaspard Dughet, and in 1801 the Supplement to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary by George Mason defined 'Picturesque as: 'what pleases the eye; remarkable for singularity; striking the imagination with the force of painting; to be expressed in painting; affording a good subject for a landscape; proper to take a landscape from.' The Picturesque Tour in search of suitable subjects was a feature of English landscape painting of the period, exemplified, for example, in the work of Girtin and (early in his career) of Turner, and the Picturesque generated a large literary output; much of it was pedantic and obsessive and it became a popular subject for satire. quality by use of verandahs, porches, bow windows and balconies.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Villa Les Glycines by ANDRÉ, Émile},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/andr-mile-r80ec995b50a92d/villa-les-glycines-rea51e83fcaa9fa},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
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