Una villa sui tetti di Parigi: l'appartamento di Charles De Beistegui di Le Corbusier

The penthouse of Charles de Beistegui in Paris is a unique example in Le Corbusier's architectural production, in which the architect confronts himself, in an unconventional project, with the strong personality of the client. As most of the studies published on the subject limit themselves to considering the space layout without its furniture, the paper examines the project in its entirety, with the aid of unpublished and little-known documents, starting from the relationships between Le Corbusier and the surrealist movement and paying particular attention to the innovative aspects of the interior arrangement culminating with the pavilion of the camera obscura with the periscope and in the experience of the roof-terrace.