Corbusier Architect (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st English Language edition, 3rd overall. 16mo, 4 7/8 inches square, unpaginated, black and white illustrations, publisher s pictorial wrappers, perfect-bound (a few bumps to edges, overall moderate wear and soiling, tight, solid, about very good).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 16mo, just under 5 inches square, unpaginated, text in French, black and white illustrations, publisher's pictorial wrappers, perfectbound (red marker ownership signature to half-title, front hi starting to become unglued, toning and soiling, wear mostly to edges, good or better).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Square quarto, 134pp, half-tone illustrations, in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine and pictorially stamped at front board (slight toning, fading and dusting, shelf-wear, minor frays to spine ends, very slight toning internally, else very good). Pictorial dust jacket (significant chipping, tears, creases, rubbing, minor loss at extremities, hint of toning most visible at white flaps, good). Laid-in: list of captions for illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Oblong folio, approx 11 1/4 inches long, 216pp, half-tone and line illustrations, publisher's tan woven cloth lettered in black ("Paris Librairie Fischbacher" discreetly stamped beneath imprint at title-page, discreet ownership stamp at lower corner of ffep, endpapers creased, front hinge cracked but holding, rear tender, significan rubbing, joints rubbed through at lower edge, frays to corners, mild discoloration, fair to good). Incomplete and poor dust jacket laid-in in 2 parts. Also laid-in, a brochure for "La Villa Savoye Par Le Corbusier" which includes floor plan published in Paris, 1987.

8vo. 4 pp. With envelope. To Albert Adès. He had Après le cubisme sent to him, written in collaboration with Ozenfant. "The ideas expressed therein are the result of many life experiences, and we have obliged ourselves to write them with clarity, perhaps even with a certain dryness and a deliberate lack of lyricism that may offend you. However, there are undeniable things to be said at this time, to crystallize around the splendid torch of our era, so many devoted wills that desire serious work but feel too isolated. I know you to be very passionate; I am, at the bottom, sometimes vehement and, under apparent calm, violent. But I do not admit that art should be wanton when in all human activity, discipline and rigor are indispensable, factors of beauty, order, and harmony. From there to putting it in painting? At the very least, some guidance is required. Perhaps you do not agree at all. It would be very agreeable to us if a strong and orderly artist like you judged our work, even if you were to clearly oppose our ideas. I believe controversy is useful on this subject, and I would be very happy to see you develop these ideas in the Grande Revue or elsewhere.".

Expanded second edition in publisher's original photographic marble card wrap covers [soft back], polished steel spine. Landscape 10¼'' x 12½''. Contains 58 printed pages with monochrome and colour illustrations and archive colour photographs throughout, transparencies of the ground floor plan and furniture. Fine condition book in Fine condition plain grey card slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 8085032562 ARCHITECTURE.

4to. 1 p. Some folds and wear to the letter. An Paul Dermée regarding his book Urbanisme (G. Grès, 1925): Seriez vous disposé à faire pour Crès une causerie TSF PTT de 20 minutes sur Urbanisme qui va paraitre, honoraires 200 f. Crès m'avait prié de le faire. Mais je désire écrire et parler le moins possible. Le sujet vous serait exposé clairement par le livre qui va sortir cette semaine et que je vous remettrais. Soyez gentil d'accepter cette affaire, j'en serais enchanté []".

4to. 2 pp. Printed letterhead P. Jeanneret". To Baroness Catherine d'Erlanger agreeing to design an aquarium for Venice, expressing interest in designing a residence in Venice that would take into account the history and present of that city's architecture, offering to advise Count [Giuseppe] Volpi concerning [industrial?] housing, expressing excitement about Italy's recent renaissance in city planning and architecture, and promising to send a copy of Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.

8vo. 2 leaves, plus two 4to leaves of typed letters to Le Corbusier (carbon copies, 19 April and 16 Sept. 1935). Writing to his "cher ami" Pierre Abraham (1892-1974), a French author and ex-aviation officer who in 1935 was leading the research team compiling the new French encyclopedia. Le Corbusier writes that he has received a previous letter, informs Abraham of a Paris address and travel plans to America ("Partirai le 16 oct. à New York pour 2 mois"), and mentions that he has sent the requested information and "3 photos de l'architecture". Signed thrice on the handwritten pages, with "Le Corbusier" signed twice on the first leaf, and "LC" on the second. - The two typed letters, also from Le Corbusier, are both related to Abraham and the Encyclopedia, in which Le Corbusier evidently had some involvement, especially in acquiring material. - Later name and number added to margins of first leaf in blue crayon; a few faint smudges, gentle creasing. The typewritten leaves are on delicate paper, with some marginal chipping, and are likewise numbered.

4to. 2 pages. With printed letterhead of Fleming's Hotel. To the writer Lucienne Favre about his incompetence in matters of theatre as well as in those of literature: "[.] je me déclare absolument incompétent en matière de théâtre comme en matière de littérature: me laissant guider par un simple intérêt des choses, je figurerais, par ex, u. pièce sous cette forme graphique: [dessin], c-à-d, une suite, une succession, une gradation, une narration. Et d'autre part je concevrais ainsi, sous cette forme, un drame ou une comédie, etc.: c-à-d, d'abord une projection dans ce qui sera l'essence du drame, la raison de la pièce. Puis les développements menus ou immenses et contrastés; enfin une proclamation et un retour à l'unité. La pièce, au lieu d'une ligne, s'inscrit alors dans une surface, voire même dans un prisme. Prisme bâti sur un triangle, ou un carré, ou un pentagone, etc [.]" ("[.] I declare myself absolutely incompetent in matters of theatre as in matters of literature: letting myself be guided by a simple interest in things, I would appear, for example, as a play in this graphic form: [drawing], that is, a suite, a succession, a gradation, a narration. And on the other hand I would conceive a drama or comedy, etc. in this form: i. e. first of all a projection in what will be the essence of the drama, the reason for the play. Then the minor or immense and contrasting developments; finally a proclamation and a return to unity. The play, instead of a line, is then inscribed in a surface, or even in a prism. Prism built on a triangle, or a square, or a pentagon, etc. [.]").