Villa Zevaco - Papillon

This guide to Villa Zevaco, known as Papillon, in Casablanca tells how a nineteen forty-seven Anfa district commission built for developer Sami Suissa became architect Jean-Francois Zevaco's calling card rather than a family home. It follows the swooping concrete balcony that earned the nickname butterfly, the triangular terrace drawn up for a pool that never got poured, and the decades the house stood as a fading advertisement for the man who built it. It leaves you asking what eventually put this showpiece back to work.