Model Mallet

In the early 1920s, Mallet-Stevens—active across various fields—designed a range of shopfronts and retail interiors. From this experience, he developed a renewed vision of light, treating it as a full-fledged material. This was groundbreaking at the time and set him apart from other architects of his era. His masterpiece, the famous Villa Cavrois, was designed as a modern castle with extensive use of metal, glass, and steel. Since the memoirs of Mallet-Stevens were destroyed at his own request, his exact thought process remains unclear. However, the villa stands as a textbook example of the modernist vision of the 1920s.