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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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).