Les Choux de Créteil, Créteil

£40.00

A modernist original, finely detailed in concrete by Spaceplay.

Les Choux de Créteil, Créteil

Name: Les Choux de Créteil, Créteil
Brand: Spaceplay
SKU: MINI_050
Price: 40.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£40.00

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Hold Créteil's concrete blooms in your hands. Whether you lived among the towers or smiled at them from the road, celebrate housing that became sculpture.

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Designed and made in my UK studio

Comes gift-boxed for the perfect concrete gift

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Building Information

Location: Créteil, Île-de-France, France
Architect: Gérard Grandval
Completed: 1969–1974
Status: Residential use, heritage-protected

Brief Overview:
Le Choux de Créteil is a group of ten residential towers on the outskirts of Paris, designed by Gérard Grandval. Their distinctive flared balconies earned them the nickname Les Choux (“the cabbages”). A bold experiment in social housing, they have become a celebrated example of French Brutalist and sculptural architecture, recognised for their originality and heritage value.

Making my concrete model

Les Choux de Créteil, Créteil

If you've ever seen the cabbages of Créteil, this Les Choux de Créteil miniature concrete model will make you smile. Gérard Grandval's ten residential towers were built between 1969 and 1974, and their balconies curl outwards like petals, which is how the nickname stuck. They're now heritage-protected and among the most sculptural social housing in European Brutalism. This concrete model of Les Choux de Créteil keeps those curling forms legible at 8cm, a playful piece of concrete art for a desk or shelf. It's made for Parisians, French architecture fans and anyone who enjoys Brutalist architecture with a sense of humour, and it's a charming gift for a Francophile architect. Each miniature concrete building is hand-cast in solid concrete, with its own texture.