Studio Visit: FRANÇOIS STAHLY
- Words Annick Weber
- Photos Yosigo
Inside the abandoned home-atelier of the late postwar sculptor.
Different levels were designed to flow into one another around two patios. Terraces function as external passageways, and each floor is linked by a series of staircases, creating a continuous circulation between the spaces.
The road to the former home and atelier of French sculptor François Stahly winds up through dense pine forests from the picturesque village of Crestet in the south of France. Pulling up at the house, you are greeted by a series of gray-beige concrete blocks that cascade down the sloped terrain—architecture that feels a world away from the traditional stone and terra-cotta roofs just a mile back down the road. A maze of terraces, stairways and patios, the building sits in the rolling countryside west of Mont Ventoux like a child’s construction set abandoned mid-play.
