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An odd and eccentric request. In the town of Moulins in central France a dying request 100 years in the making.
Maison Mantin was willed to the town months before Louis Mantin's death in 1905 but with the insistence that the house be closed and reopened in 100 years as a museum. For good reason - integrity! He wanted the house to be a time capsule for future generations to see how bourgeois gentlemen lived in the early 1900s.
And so there it sat through two wars, shuttered, a mysterious presence in the shadows of the Moulin's cathedral. Even German occupiers during World War II left it unscathed.
A team of 30 specialists did the necessary restoration.
The house had advanced features - electric lighting, flushing toilets, under-floor heating with stained glass (love) and carved wood!
Very, very, very cool.
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