At the dawn of the 1970s, journalists, great reporters and art critics had not failed to rave about this masterpiece of a new genre. They greeted a «building that disturbs because it pleads for a new disorder». In Paris Match, Marc Heimmer described «a light factory that revolutionizes conventions and modifies ways of working» and admired this «industrial monument», these «unexpected arrows» and these «acute bows». L'Usine Étoile is not the work of an architect; it is the only architectural creation of the most daring of the Pompidolian painters of France, disciple of Salvador Dalí and father of European lyric abstraction: Georges Mathieu. Today labeled "remarkable contemporary architecture" by the Ministry of Culture, the Étoile factory is writing a new chapter in its history...