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...wanted a proper setting for his medieval art collection. Couelle quit the profession and founded his own "Center of Research in Natural Structure." In 17 years he took out more than 100 patents for new structural materials-but built nothing. Then five years ago, he took Paris Banker Pierre Beckhardt for a drive to show him "a mistake I made when I was young"-the stockbroker's château...
Abode of Instinct. Enraptured by Couelle's collection of housing icono-clasms, Beckhardt decided it might be profitable for his bank to invest in a Couelle-designed development, and he arranged to purchase the chateau and 125 acres around it. Couelle's first project was to create Old Castellaras, which he did by building 91 houses (from $30,000 to $100,000) around the chateau. Most of them looked like provincial farmhouses from the outside, were startling only in that there were a few tricky Couelle nuances inside (odd-shaped staircases, sculptured fireplaces). They sold quickly...
Brave Banker Beckhardt has also gone all out for instinct. Trumpeted he last week, in words that would freeze the mind of any FHA man: "Castellaras is a village of foetuses...
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