An invitation to exhibit at the <em>Musée national Fernand Léger</em> in Biot allowed me to explore post-war social housing, seen not as a symptom of utopia gone wrong but as the <em>Setting for an ordinary life</em>. The exhibition space was filled with architectural forms and elements of furniture. The esthetic world of modernism, based on the grid and thus seen as alienating, seemed positively domestic, intimate and decorative.