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Place of Birth: Nice, Provence-Alpes-CĂ´te d'Azur, France
About Aaron Messiah
- Aaron Messiah (1858-1940) was an early 20th-century French architect. Messiah was court architect to Leopold II of Belgium, but his most famous work was the Villa Ephrussi, completed in 1912.
- At this southern French villa, Messiah successfully synthesized the eclectic collections and ideas of Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild into a coherent neoclassical whole. Messiah also built the more grandiose Villa Masséna on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.
- Like the Villa Ephrussi, the Villa Masséna was an aristocratic French riviera retreat, and represented an apotheosis of southern Europe's craft legacy.
- This villa was built for the prince Victor Masséna, whose family had gained title and wealth under the French emperor Napoléon.
- Despite its historicism, the villa included an up-to-date porte-cochere, where visitors could enter and leave automobiles without being exposed to the elements. Aaron was the father of the architect Gaston Messiah (1885-1962).
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