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Viollet-Le-Duc (illustrator). 8° - 293pp - Color & B/w reproductions. Published as exhibition catalogue: Viollet-Le-Duc Centenary of his death in Lausanne: Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Château de Roquetaillade in the Bordeaux region. His writings on decoration and on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a fundamental influence on a whole new generation of architects, including all the major Art Nouveau artists: Antoni Gaudí, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Henry van de Velde, Henri Sauvage and the École de Nancy, Paul Hankar, Otto Wagner, Eugène Grasset, Émile Gallé, and Hendrik Petrus Berlage. First edition, text in French. Original wrappers. In Very good condition International Edition.