Notre Dame de toute grâce.

    The church of Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce du Plateau d'Assy (Our Lady Full of Grace ) is a Roman Catholic church built on the plateau d'Assy between 1937 and 1946, in a aera dedicated to sanatoriums and healing institutions built in ethe 20's and 30's to cure tubercolusis and other diseases before antibiotics spread. It faces Mont Blanc. The church is unique for its decoration, designed by some of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. It is also viewed as an important step  in the development of modern sacred art, although its consecration in 1950 raised some consternation within the french clergy....
 The facade is decorated by mosaïcs made after a drawing of famous painter Fernand Léger.

Mirror of justice

Tonnelle et Charmille..

  T and C intertwined recall the names of the former name of this family hotel near the station of Le Croisic : Tonnelle and Charmille.

Le Croisic

La Rotonde

This building , located boulevard Gambetta in Nice,  is the 1929 work of  Georges  Dikanski. Called "La Rotonde", it is a fine piece of Art Déco style...

By the seaside.

The house is standing just in front of the sea, in northern France.

Le Crotoy.

House of cards

On the  casino wall in Le Tréport, small seaside town in Normandy, this mosaïc designed by Helen Mai represents the Red Queen preparing to cut the head of Alice. It was made in the late 1950's by Atelier Gaudin .

  Helen MAI, is the pseudonym of Jeanne Lartigue, french painter (1903-1995). She especially worked on  encaustic paintings, wall ceramics, mosaics and sculptures in public places.

More to eat....

Nevers rue de la Rotonde

American Mosaic, 2016 winter issue!

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Includes REAL pieces of  report in Greece by Richard Davis ...