Shortly before 1900, Gilbert Décoret, former secretary and historian of the Vichy Hospices, launched the Villa Tunisienne project. He then commissioned his son Henri, an architect, to build a villa as a tribute to his other son, Joseph, a mechanical engineer and founder of Ferryville, who died in Tunis in 1899.
Henri Décoret had to cease his business activity in 1900, leading architect Antoine Percilly to take over the project; sadly, Gilbert Décoret died without seeing his project's completion in 1906 by his son-in-law, Lucien Vallerix, an ophthalmologist.
The villa housed both the owner's home and professional premises. For the facade, Percilly employed the usual decorative vocabulary of the Moorish style: windows with horseshoe or mitre arches, twisted columns with capitals, red brick bands, enamel friezes, and an onion-shaped roof, which, like the rest of the roof, must originally have been covered with ornate, multicoloured enamelled roof tiles.
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