Roy R. Behrens, are-ballast-tmuqf[at]oekkk-netins.net
This structure was designed by Le Corbusier for William Edwards Cook (1881-1959), an American expatriate painter from Independence, Iowa. Cook had been introduced to Le Corbusier by the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, who was a friend of Gertrude Stein and her brother Michael. Both Lipchitz and Michael Stein also had villas designed by Le Corbusier. Cook and his French wife Jeanne were close friends of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, with whom they went on vacation several times at Palma de Mallorca. Cook was a Parisian taxi driver during World War I, and used his taxi to teach Gertrude Stein to drive, so that she and Alice could contribute to the French war effort. He and Jeanne are mentioned frequently in Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Everybody's Autobiography.
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