Les Bains Douches Municipaux

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32 Quai Albert Goupil, 53000 Laval
The need to promote bodily hygiene in a town where having a toilet was exceptional at the time, led the town council to commission its architect Léon Guinebretière to design a building to be used as a public bath.
Construction of the building began in 1925 and it opened to the public in 1927. The exterior is modest but modern. It draws on the Art Deco repertoire in a spirit close to that of the Viennese Secession. The geometric lines are softened by the use of Egyptian motifs.
Comprising 16 showers and 6 baths, the shower room is dominated by the blue of the mosaics commissioned from the artist Isidore Odorico, who also designed the Saint-Georges swimming pool in Rennes.

The mosaics feature the same...

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Les Bains Douches Municipaux
32 Quai Albert Goupil, 53000 Laval
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