Collection: 1900 French Villa Designs

Welcome to Emile Thézard's La Maison Pour Tous, a pattern book of affordable villa designs published in Dourdan, c. 1900.

Thézard's publication offered detailed architectural plans — façades, cross-sections, and floor layouts — for middle-class families seeking affordable suburban and country homes during the Belle Époque.

 Published in high-quality chromolithographs between 1900 and 1920, they were originally designed as practical building guides; these works now stand as elegant, hand-coloured compositions—celebrating proportion, craftsmanship, and the quiet sophistication of everyday living.