Maison dite villa Les Alizés

Georges Parrot, an industrialist leading the Coquillard establishments in Froges, Isère, commissioned architect Maurice Blanc in 1950 to design a villa on a plot adjacent to Saint-Clair beach. Parrot's industrial background reflects the influence of his company’s achievements in aluminum production during the post-war boom. The design ethos is connected to Pierre Jeanneret’s earlier work on wooden homes with porticos in Charteau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, which incorporated innovative structural methods influenced by Jean Prouvé’s “alphabet of structures.” Notably, a neighboring site was simultaneously developing a villa featuring a portico by Prouvé’s workshops.