La Boîte de nuit thematic exhibition. La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, 1933 remarkable Var architecture #2

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2 La Boîte de nuit thematic exhibition La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, 1933 remarkable Var architecture #2 exhibitions of architecture February 19 - March 19, 2017 opening on February 18, 6pm villa Noailles, Hyères communauté d agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée

3 Curatorship Audrey Teichmann, Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez-Barat Press service Philippe Boulet T. +33 (0) boulet@tgcdn.com Catalogues Two books are published by the association villa Noailles on the occasion on the exhibitions opening, available from February 18,2017 at the villa Noailles shop and by delivery, and in book shops in Europe. Graphism: Antoine et Manuel La boite de nuit Color, bilingual french / english. 172 pages. 30 euro La Batterie, Pierre Barbe Color, bilingual french / english. 32 pages. 15 euro villa Noailles communauté d agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée Montée Noailles Hyères T. +33 (0) / 93 mediation@villanoailles-hyeres.com Opening hours Everyday from 1pm to 6pm, except Mondays, Tuesdays and bank holidays. Fridays late night opening from 3pm to 8pm. Free admission

4 Photographie de Bill Bernstein, Reflections, 1979 La Boîte de nuit

5 La Boîte de nuit Architects and projects Andreas Angelidakis X Club, Athens, 1990 Continuing its reflection upon locations dedicated to leisure activities following on from last year s exhibition Landskating, les lieux du skate à travers le monde, in 2017 the villa Noailles will devote its annual architecture exhibition to discos. Through a selection of projects from the 1960s to today, the exhibition aims to apprehend the architectural tools put into play in the conception of these emancipating spaces. Discos are a testing ground for architects: through technological and formal devices, they develop an artificial world with a controlled atmosphere that is isolated from the outside. Alongside a collection of projects from France and abroad, a commission was placed with an architect to design a disco at the heart of the villa Noailles itself. Open for the duration of the exhibition, this pop up nightclub highlights and offers to experience in vivo the exhibition s intent. The exhibition presents rare documents, some are unseen (plans, models, photographs, sculptures, graphic works, videos), photographic series and texts by guests contributors. Gianni Arnaudo, Studio 65 Flash Back, Cuneo (Italy), 1979 Abinal & Ropars (Edouard Ropars, Julien Abinal) Bar, Chez Régine, 2008 Patrick Berger and Vincent Barré Le Palace, Paris, 1978 Bureau A (Léopold Banchini, Daniel Zamarbide) The Club, 2015 The Shelter, Lisbon, 2016 (collective) Area Club, New York, François Dallegret and Joseph Baker Palais Métro, Montreal, 1968 Pietro Derossi, Giorgio Ceretti and Riccardo Rosso Piper Club, Turin, 1966 L Altro Mondo, Rimini, 1967 E.A.T. - Experiments in Art and Technology Pepsi Pavillon, Osaka, 1970 Didier Fiuza Faustino In girum imus nocte et concumimur igni, Plougonver (Côte d Armor), /...

6 Architects and projects (next part) Daniel Grataloup La Coquille, Bouzedjar (Algeria), 1998 Rabih Geha Uberhaus, Beirut, 2015 Gruppo 9999 (Carlo Caldini, Fabrizio Fiumi, Paolo Galli and Giorgio Birelli) Space Electronic, Florence, 1969 Ben Kelly Hacienda, Manchester, 1982 OMA/AMO Ministry of Sound II, Londres, 2015 Édouard Ropars Le Grand jour, installation, Leonardo Savioli Ipotesi di spazio, Florence, 1972 Nicolas Schöffer in collaboration with Paul Bertrand Voom Voom, Saint-Tropez, 1966 Voom Voom, Juan-les-Pins, 1968 Superstudio (Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Piero Frassinelli, Roberto Magris) Mach II, Florence, 1967 La Ville Rayée (David Apheceix, Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez-Barat) Les communautés de l instant, Paris, 2009 Photographers Ben Bauchanan Area Club, Bill Bernstein Disco, André Giesemann et Daniel Schulz Vom Bleiben, François Prost After Party, Researches and additional texts Carlotta Darò Chiara Carpenter, Giovanna Silva Nightswimming, Pol Estève in collaboration with Marc Navarro Atlas of Plans nightclub for the Villa Noailles Nicolas Dorval Bory The Cornell Box, Hyères, 2017

7 La Boîte de nuit available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. The Bar of The Régine, Paris, Architects: Abinal & Ropars. Photograph: Milo Keller. Courtesy Abinal & Ropars Palais Métro, Montreal, Architect: François Dallegret. Collage. Courtesy François Dallegret The Hacienda, Manchester, Architect: Ben Kelly. 3D image. Courtesy Ben Kelly The Shelter, inflatable movable structure, Architects: Bureau (Léopold Banchini, Daniel Zamarbide). Photograph: Dylan Perrenoud. Courtesy Bureau A The X club, Athens, Architect: Andreas Angelidakis. 3D image. Courtesy Andreas Angelidakis The Club, temporary installation, Lisbon, Architects: Bureau (Léopold Banchini, Daniel Zamarbide). Photograph: Mariana Lopes. Courtesy Bureau A

8 La Boîte de nuit available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. Lutrario, Turin, Architect: Carlo Mollino. Original plan. Courtesy Politecnico di Torino La Coquille, Bouzedjar, Algeria, Architect: Daniel Grataloup. Original model. Courtesy République et Canton de Genève / Département de l aménagement, du logement et de l énergie / Office du patrimoine et des sites L Altro Mondo, Rimini, Architects: Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi, Riccardo Rosso. Photograph. Courtesy Pietro Derossi IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI, Plougonver, Côte d Armor, Architect: Didier Fiuza Faustino / Mésarchitectures. 3D view. Courtesy Didier Fiuza Faustino / Mésarchitectures Piper Pluriclub, Turin, Architects: Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi, Riccardo Rosso. Photograph. Courtesy Pietro Derossi

9 La Boîte de nuit available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. Altromondo Studios, Rimini. Photograph by Giovanna Silva, 2014 Nightswimming series. Courtesy Chiara Carpenter and Giovanna Silva «Le Diamant Neau (Mayenne)». Photograph by François Prost. After Party series, Courtesy François Prost Golden Gate, Berlin, Photograph by d André Giesemann and Daniel Schulz. Vom Bleiben series, Courtesy André Giesemann and Daniel Schulz Area club, New York, Photograph by Ben Buchanan Courtesy Ben Buchanan Drawing, Uberhaus, Beirut, Architect: Rabih Geha Courtesy Rabih Geha Architects Flashback, Cuneo, Italia, Architects: Studio 65, Gianni Arnaudo Courtesy Gianni Arnaudo

10 La Boîte de nuit available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. Plan, Voom Voom, Juan-les-Pins, Architect: Nicolas Schöffer Courtesy Fonds Nicolas Schöffer Area club, New York. Photograph by Bill Bernstein, 1979 Courtesy Bill Bernstein Reflections, New York. Photograph by Bill Bernstein, 1979 Courtesy Bill Bernstein Plan, Le Palace, Paris, Architects: Patrick Berger et Vincent Barré Courtesy Patrick Berger

11 La Batterie, Pierre Barbe

12 La Batterie, Pierre Barbe The Villa Noailles continues a series of exhibitions dedicated to the remarkable architectures in the Var. Throught archives and contemporary photographic documentary, the aim is to reveal extraordinary buildings of the region. In 2016, the first exhibition was about the villa Reine Jeanne in Bormesles-Mimosas, designed by the american architect Barry Dierks. On the occasion of this new exhibition, Vincent Flouret answers to the photographic assignment by the villa Noailles. La Batterie was built in 1933 in Val d Esquières, in the coastal quarter of Issambres, in the town of Roquebrunesur-Argens (Var). The architect, Pierre Barbe ( ) was a young man enamoured with functionalism, whose cause he defended at the Congrès internationaux d architecture moderne (CIAM, founded upon the initiative of Le Corbusier in 1928) and through the Union des artistes modernes (UAM) where he was one of the founding members with Robert Mallet-Stevens in In 1932, the civil engineering company Montcocol became the owner of the hotel La Résidence in Val d Esquières, which it had just constructed following a design by the Saint Maxime resident and architect, René Darde ( ). Charles Montcocol enlisted his son-in-law, Robert Lallemant ( ), to design the hotel s gardens. Lallemant was a ceramicist, decorator, and member of the UAM, and he in turn presented Pierre Barbe to his father-inlaw. In 1932, the Montcocol company asked Pierre Barbe to design its head office and technical facilities, which were built at 82 quai de la Rapée in Paris, and then in 1933 a dance hall in Roquebrune. La Batterie was situated upon a headland beyond the beach of Val d Esquières and backed onto a bend which followed the coastal road and the single track of the Chemins de fer de Provence. The location s curves determined those of this small structure whose oval layout established its entire design. From the dance hall s oval terrace, which opened up onto the sea, to the curve into which were carved the bandstand in the middle, entrances on either side, as well as the bathrooms on the right and the bar on the left. Narrow reinforced concrete columns supported the slender porch, which was also oval. The rear of the bandstand was translucent thanks to Saint-Gobain Nevada glass bricks, the very same which Pierre Chareau used two years later to construct the facades of the Maison de verre in Paris. The metallic letters of the sign La Batterie perched atop the entrance porch, the guyed mast, and the handrail bordering the dance floor imprinted the aedicule with the aesthetic of yachts and cruise ships. For Montcocol, this dance hall was not simply an amenity for the prestige of the hotel, it was also a demonstration of his expertise in reinforced concrete: the finesse of the oval porch, supported by slender columns was echoed in even finer details, such as the manner in which the shelves in the bar were cast. La Batterie was also a calling card for Pierre Barbe, as the design model was exhibited at the UAM show of 1933 and several photographs were published in the review l Architecture d aujourd hui in 1935 and in Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, professeur d histoire de l art contemporain, université Paris-Sorbonne (parts of the text published in the catalogue)

13 La Batterie, Pierre Barbe available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, Photograph by Vincent Flouret, from the photographic assignment by the Villa Noailles, January 2017.

14 La Batterie, Pierre Barbe available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, Photograph by Vincent Flouret, from the photographic assignment by the Villa Noailles, January La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, Photograph by Vincent Flouret, from the photographic assignment by the Villa Noailles, January La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, Photograph by Vincent Flouret, from the photographic assignment by the Villa Noailles, January La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, Photograph by Vincent Flouret, from the photographic assignment by the Villa Noailles, January La Batterie, Pierre Barbe, Photograph by Vincent Flouret, from the photographic assignment by the Villa Noailles, January 2017.

15 La Batterie, Pierre Barbe available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. postcard Aerial view of Val d Esquières (Var) - France. Dancing La Batterie (sea side, center of the image) CIM, circa 1935 postcard Val d Esquières Beach (Var) - France. Hôtel de la Résidence Dancing La Batterie (sea side, right of the image) éditions d art Yvon, circa 1935 postcard La Côte d Azur Varoise. Le Val d Esquières - Les Issambres (Var) - France. La plage et l hôtel de la Résidence du Val d Esquières. Dancing La Batterie (sea side, right of the image) éditions Rella, Nice, 1965 postcard Val d Esquières Beach (Var) - France. Hôtel de la Résidence Dancing La Batterie (sea side, right of the image) éditions d art Yvon, circa 1935

16 La Batterie, Pierre Barbe available press pictures High resolution pictures available from the website password on demand to the press service Pictures of the exhibition will be available after the opening. Dancing La Batterie, Val d Esquières district, Roquebrune-sur-Argens (Var) (avec René Darde, arch.). Plan of the ground floor (éch. 1/50e), Courtesy: Fonds Barbe. SIAF/Cité de l architecture et du patrimoine/archives d architecture du XXe siècle Dancing La Batterie, Val d Esquières district, Roquebrune-sur-Argens (Var) (with René Darde, arch.). ELE Elevated view (road and sea sides) and longitudinal section (éch. 1/50e), n.d. Courtesy : Fonds Barbe. SIAF/Cité de l architecture et du patrimoine/archives d architecture du XXe siècle

17 curatorship villa Noailles Audrey Teichmann Audrey Teichmann is a french curator and independent critic based in Geneva. She is a regular collaborator of Galerie Laurence Bernard (Geneva, Switzerland). Her curatorial work was showcased at Esam Caen/ Cherbourg, at the Qingdao Sculpture Museum (China), and she has been experimenting with innovative curatorial practices for 4 years now at Baleapop, a music and contemporary art festival (Saint-Jean-de-Luz). She is a guest member of the editorial team of Contraintes, and her writings have been published in various magazines and art school publications (Villa Arson, Esam). communauté d agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée Jean-Pierre Blanc general director Montée Noailles Hyères T. +33 (0) / 93 mediation@villanoailles-hyeres.com Opening hours Everyday from 1pm to 6pm, except Mondays, Tuesdays and bank holidays. Fridays late night opening from 3pm to 8pm. Free admission Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien Martinez-Barat Winners of the Albums of Young Architecture and Landscape Architecture (AJAP) of French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2016, Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien Martinez-Barat have developed an expanded architectural practice, combining constructions, publications and curatorial projects. In 2014, they co-realized Interiors. Notes and Figures., the Belgian pavilion at the 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice. In 2016, they inaugurated the project Folies, nouvelles during their residency at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. martinezbaratlafore.com