Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Le Corbusier and P(ierre) Jeanneret. (Oeuvre complète, vol. II).

With 50 plates (2 in colour pochoir) and many plans (1 in colour) in the text part. 47, (1) pp. 4to. Loose quires and plates as issued in orig. cardboard portfolio with blue boards and black ties. – Paris, Albert Morancé, (1929).

From „L’architecture vivante“. Second part (of 7 published from 1927 to 1934) of this early edition of Le Corbusier’s complete works, edited by himself together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret with whom he founded their architecture studio in Paris in 1923. This present volume contains the works from 1927 to 1928, such as the Cité-Jardin Weissenhof, the Villa à Garches, the Mundaneum, the villas à Carthage, and the villa Savoye. With introducing text by Jean Badovici, a speech hold on the occasion of the international congress of architecture at Sarraz castle in the Swiss canton Vaud. – Later ms. interventions to plan on page 12. 1 plate with marginal defect. Edges and front board of portfolio rubbed. – Best.-Nr. 24100