Open-air swimming pools

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

SOURCE: Centres de loisirs, stades, piscines (Paris, 1938), vol. 2, pl. 60 recto

SOURCE: Centres de loisirs, stades, piscines (Paris, 1938), vol. 2, pl. 60 verso

NOTES: The Villa Cavrois was designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1929-1932 for the wealthy industrialist Paul Cavrois. Remodelled in 1947 by Pierre Barbe, it was converted into three flats. In 1985 it had fallen into disrepair and by 2001 it was a virtual ruin, when it was bought by the state for a nominal sum of 1 euro, along with part of the grounds. Since then, there has been an extensive programme to restore the house back to its original 1932 form, under the supervison of Michel Goutal, Chief Architect of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux. This was completed in 2015, when the villa was opened to the public.