Marseille, Unité d'Habitation; spanning an area of two hundred square meters is an apartment created by the union of two of the double-height units, bathed in natural light and characterized by the sign of concrete beams and pillars left exposed. It is now for sale at one million four hundred thousand euros.
After the merger in 1966 of two residential units that made this apartment one of the largest of the building's 337, a renovation in the 1990s preserved the original key-elements, such as the staircase and kitchen that had been designed by Charlotte Perriand, who along with Jean Prouvé left an inimitable mark on the building's interiors.
The ground floor houses the living area with a living room, kitchen, dining room and a small library, and extends opening into a loggia - also doubled by joining with the adjacent one - of 32 square meters.
Lecorbusian signs can be traced in the details, for example in the fixtures and custom-made furniture.
Going up the Prouvé-designed staircase, the sleeping area still enjoys the light from the large windows that perimeter the apartment and is sheltered by a folding wooden fan wall. It houses the spaces of rest and work: a "master" suite and two other rooms, all with their own bathrooms and a "boat" shower, and then there is a studio.
Lecorbusierian signs can be traced in the details, for example in the fixtures and custom-made furniture set in the large walls now covered in Moroccan tadelakt.
Among the architectures for sale signed by the greatest designers, this one could be the dream of a great many aficionados, as La Cité Radieuse - better known as Unité d'Habitation - made history in the middle of the last century by redefining the paradigms of living. Gio Ponti in issue 242 of Domus, which came out in January 1950, spoke of it as "the most important modern architectural event in the world today."
The "city within a city" was conceived by the French-Swiss architect to contain, in addition to many houses, services and common areas, such as the large terrace that rests on the 18th floor of the building and stretches for the 140 meters of its length.
This apartment is for sale exclusively with Architecture de Collection, a leading agency in the preservation and enhancement of 20th- and 21st-century art-house architecture.
Opening image: Photo © Mathilde Lebreuil, FLC - ADAGP 2026