La Maison de Verre (House of Glass) in Paris by Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) has become a Mecca for contemporary designers and architects. Upon its completion in the 30s, the façade of glass bricks and numerous items of movable built-in furniture caused a furore. The international press compared it to the courtyard houses of Moorish Andalusia, a ship or even an Eskimo igloo. Today it is regarded as a classic. This unique achievement in the history of architecture is portrayed here in detail, along with the other houses, furniture, designs and projects by Pierre Chareau. Here, for the first time his complete works are accessible to a wide readership.

Brian Brace Taylor, American architectural historian and critic, is professor at the Ecole d'architecture Paris-Belleville. He has been an editor of “I'Architecture d'Aujour d'hui”, arts contributor to the “Financial Times” and was a founder-editor of the review “MIMAR, Architecture in Development”. An authority on Le Corbusier, Dr. Taylor has written two books on his works as well as several on contemporary architecture in Asia, Africa and Latin America.