page_title: La Maison Cubiste
section_title: Influence
hierarchical_section_title: La Maison Cubiste / Influence
caption_attribution_description: English: The Fara House in Pelhnrimov, Czech Republic, with a Cubist/Art Deco facade designed by Pavel Janak (1913)
context_page_description: La Maison Cubiste, also called Projet d'hôtel, was an architectural installation in the Art Décoratif section of the 1912 Paris Salon d'Automne which presented a Cubist vision of architecture and design. Critics and collectors present at the exhibition were confronted for the first time with the prospect of a Cubist architecture.
  The facade was designed by the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. The interior design of the house was conceived by the painter and designer André Mare, in collaboration with Cubist artists from the Section d'Or group.
context_section_description: It is difficult to measure the influence of the Maison Cubiste.  No actual house following the same design was ever built, and later Deco and modernist residences followed very different models.   However, the house was a great success in emphasizing the role of Cubism as an alternative to traditional art and design.   The scandal in the press caused by the paintings displayed there was a major contributor to the popularity of Cubist art. Thanks largely to the popularity of the exposition, the term "Cubist" began to be applied to anything modern, from women's haircuts to clothing to theater performances.
  Le Corbusier had reportedly been enthused by La Maison Cubiste during the 1912 exhibition. "He saw in it important solutions for the problem of building with cement." Le Corbusier subsequently exhibited his model for Maison Citrohan (a mass production prototype) at the Salon d'Automne of 1922. He later built the Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau for the L'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, 1925, Paris, the event which gave Art Deco its name. The undecorated rectangular  box of the Esprit Nouveau Pavilion, however, bore no resemblance to the Cubist House. 
  No buildings like the Cubist House were built in France, but the model did have an impact in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where architects wanted to show their independence from the Viennese style.  In 1913 the Czech architect Pavel Janák was commissioned to reconstruct the facade of a large baroque house, the Fara House in the town of Pelhrimov in south Bohemia,   in the cubist style. Janák redid the baroque facade by adding angular geometric forms similar to those on the model of the cubist house in Paris.  Because of this quest for architectural independence from Austria,  many art deco houses, mostly in the later more typical Deco style, are found in Prague and other cities in the Czech Republic.
caption: Fara House in Pelhřimov, Czech Republic, with a baroque facade rebuilt by Pavel Janák in the Cubist House style (1913)
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