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La Maison au Bord de l'Eau, a low-cost beach house - Charlotte Perriand
Influential architect and designer Charlotte Perriand conceived La Maison au Bord de l’Eau in 1934 for an architectural competition to design a low-cost vacation home for the masses. Though she took second prize, her design was apparently ahead of its time. While the judges liked it, the working class families for which it was intended did not. She produced variations of the beach house for wealthy clients, but her original design was not built until 80 years later.
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