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France
Western Europe
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Louviers,
La Maison a Vaisselle Cassée (House of Broken Crockery) - Robert Vasseur
1908-2002
Mosaic environment
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Information:
La Maison a Vaisselle Cassée: 80 Rue du Bal-Champetre, 27400 Louviers, France, Tel: +33-(0)2 32 40 22 71.
Robert Vasseur, a former milk-delivery driver, started in 1952 to decorate his house and garden near Rouen with shells and broken crockery, aided throughout by his wife. The exterior walls of the house shimmer with decorative imagery. They are dominated by a huge butterfly, which refers to Vasseur's CB radio code name, Butterfly 27."
"Within the courtyard, the mosaic surfaces cover a variety of structures, including a dog kennel encrusted with shells, and a complex fountain, which is rotated by the flow of its waters. Even the coalshed has been encased in mosaic."
"The interior of the House of Broken Crockery is also encrusted with decoration; one can still see the first object to receive mosaic treatment, an old cement sink. Vasseur had an arrangement with the local dump to put aside broken crockery for him to collect, each piece of which he carefully washed and sterilised."
Text and images are from "Fantasy Worlds" by Deidi Von Schaewen and John Maizels
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Bibliography:
"Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond" by John Maizels, 1996.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Fantasy Worlds" by Deidi Von Schaewen and John Maizels, Taschen, New York, 1999.
"Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook" Raw Vision, Ltd., 2002. |
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