One hundred years ago, the American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) moved to France. By the 1930s, Calder had established himself as one of the greatest modern sculptors with his ‘Mobiles’, suspended sculptures that are constantly in motion. Deeply attached to France throughout his life, he settled in 1953 in Saché, a village in Touraine, where he bought a house named ‘François 1er’. In 1963, he built a large studio, which he designed on the Carroi site, overlooking the Indre valley. Many of his ‘Stabiles’ – monumental sculptures made of riveted sheet metal – were designed and assembled there in collaboration with the Biémont company of Tours.