Paul POIRET (1879-1944). Country lunch with red armchair. Oil on canvas signed lower right (restoration in center). Height : 50 cm - Width : 65 cm Note: This landscape is probably a view from the Paul Poiret villa, also known as Château de Mezy. The Villa Paul Poiret, designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Poiret in the 1920s, embodies the beginnings of modern architecture in France. The project remained unfinished after Poiret's bankruptcy. Taken over in the 1930s by Elvire Popesco, it was transformed in an Art Deco "Paquebot" style.