Villa Jeanneret-Perret advanced course of the Ecole d'Art. The architect who later took the name "Le Corbusier" was 25 years old. He had distanced himself from the spirit of Art Nouveau, travelled in Europe and in the Middle East, learned from the masters of modern architecture...The "Maison blanche" was his first independent project and a very personal creation. Jeanneret himself lived and worked in the house from 1912 to 1915. In 1919, the house was sold. It had many owners in the course of the century until 2000, when it was purchased and restored by the "Association Maison blanche" which opened it
Charles David (architect) Charles David (architect) Charles David (1552 – 4 December 1650) was a 16th/17th-century French architect. He married Anne Lemercier, daughter of architect Nicolas Lemercier in 1582 and succeeded his father-in-law as architect of the church of Saint-Eustache, Paris in 1585. David was responsible for the construction of the choir, which was completed in 1637. According to Paluster he was interred at St.-Eustache, with the epitaph (since effaced): Ici gist le corps d'honorable homme Charles David vivant juré du Roy es oeuvres de maçonnerie doyen des jurés et bourgeois de Paris architecte et conducteur du batiment de l'eglize de ceans lequel