Floating Ahead of Time: Villa Ker Ar Bruck, the French Pioneer

In the year 1884, Louis Richard, aided by Armand Peugeot's firm, Richard & Cie, completed the construction of Villa Ker Ar Bruck in the year 1889. Armand Peugeot's Parisian companion, Maurice Desmaret, claimed a plot in Bellevue for the purpose of erecting this distinctive, disconnected dwelling in the year 1894. This house, while under the ownership of the Desmaret family, remained so until the late 1970s. The entire villa, made of metal sheets coated in zinc, with timber walls and plaster, encompasses a principal wing facing the shore, with a half wing in return. In the span of the 1950s to the 1960s, an extension in the form of a veranda was added, and a basement was excavated, given that the house possessed no foundation initially. By a decree issued on the 26th of January in the year 2004, its facades and roofs were acknowledged as historical monuments.

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