The Villa Bleue (Blue Villa) is a historic mansion in

Barcelonnette Barcelonnette (; , also ; obsolete ) is a Communes of France, commune of France and a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture in the Departments of France, department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is l ...

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (sometimes abbreviated as AHP; ; ; ), formerly until 1970 known as Basses-Alpes (, ), is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the sou ...

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (commonly shortened to PACA), also known as Région Sud, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France, located at the far southeastern point of the Metropolitan France, mainland. The main P ...

, France. It was built from 1929 to 1931 for Camille Jean, a French businessman who founded Francia Maritima, a store in

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, Mexico. It was designed in

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...

style by Joseph Hiriart, Georges Tribout and Georges Beau.

Jacques Grüber Jacques Grüber (25 January 1870 – 15 December 1936) was a French woodworker and stained glass, stained-glass artist. Biography Grüber was born in Sundhouse (Alsace). After starting his training at the , where he would later be a teacher, h ...

crafted the glassworks. It has been listed as an official historical monument since 1987.

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