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.
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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...