BOOKS ON THE ARTIST LE CORBUSIER
Boesiger, W. LE CORBUSIER et PIERRE JEANNERET. Oeuvre Complete. [1910-1965]. 7 volumes comprise 1,510 pp. and illustrated with ca. 2,000 b&w photographs and diagrams. Text in English, French and German translations. Oblong 4tos, cloth. Various publishers: Editions Girsberger, Wittenborn, and Editions d'Architecture Erlenbach in Zurich and New York, 1948 - 1965.
Catalogue Raisonné.Freitag, #5270.
Item nr. 29475
$ 750.00
London. Sotheby. Fifty Works by LE CORBUSIER: Paintings, Drawings, Collages and Sculpture Created Between the Years 1919 and 1964. 95 pp. catalogue illustrates 50 lots, many in color. 4to, cloth. 1969.
Item nr. 32245
$ 50.00
Herve, Lucien. LE CORBUSIER: As Artist As Writer. (series: Plastic Arts of the Twentieth Century.) Intro. by Marcel Joray. 131 pp. include 124 illustrations, a few in color. Square 4to, cloth. Neuchatel, Eds. du Griffon, 1970.
Item nr. 33963
$ 50.00
Curtis, William J. R. LE CORBUSIER: Ideas and Forms. 240 pp., 243 illustrations, 31 in color. 4to, wraps. London and New York, Phaidon Press, 2003.
Item nr. 41269
$ 29.95
Le Corbusier. CROISADE ou LE CREPUSCULE DES ACADEMIES. 88 pp. text and a number of b&w illustrations. Small 4to. Later cloth,wrappers with photomontage cover design preserved. Paris, Les Editions G. Cres, 1933.
First edition. A defense of modern architecture by Le Corbusier.
Item nr. 41579
$ 495.00
Le Corbusier. PRECISIONS SUR UN ETAT PRESENT DE L'ARCHITECTURE ET DE L'URBANISME. 268 pp. text, includes a number of illustrations in b&w. Small 4to, wraps. Paris, Les Editions G. Cres, (nd).
From the series, Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau." First edition. Fine copy.
Item nr. 41586
$ 250.00
Paris. L'Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui: LE COURBUSIER & P. JEANNERET. Volume 10 148 pp. text with b&w illustrations. 4to in board folio.
Item nr. 42367
$ 250.00
Bacon, Mardges. LE CORBUSIER in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid. 406 pp., 8 color and numerous b&w figures. Small square 4to, wraps. Cambridge and London, MIT Press, 2001.
A scholarly account of Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States, in 1935, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art. The text describes both the visit, its effect on Le Corbusier, and the intellectual discourse prevalent in France at the time which offers a larger context for understanding his subsequent volume of memoirs about the trip entited "When the Cathedrals were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People".
Item nr. 93518
$ 35.00
Tzonis, Alexander. Drawings from the LE CORBUSIER archive: Villas, public buildings, ronchamp. 88 pages. 4to, wraps, fully illustrated. London, Architectural design, 1985.
Item nr. 97040
$ 37.50
Evenson, Norma. LE CORBUSIER: The Machine and the Grand Design. 128 pages, including 102 b&w plates. 4to, cloth. New York, Braziller, 1969.
Item nr. 97117
$ 35.00
Jencks, Charles. LE CORBUSIER and the Tragic View of Architecture. 198 pages, including 108 b&w plates. 4to, cloth. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1973.
Item nr. 97120
$ 85.00
Gardiner, Stephen. Modern Masters: LE CORBUSIER. 133 pages; illustrated in b&w. 8vo, cloth. New York, The Viking Press, 1974.
Item nr. 98278
$ 17.50
Gresleri, Giuliano. (Ch.-E. Jeanneret) LE CORBUSIER: Voyage d'Allemagne. Carnets. 165 pp. text, followed by roughly 400 pp. of facsimile, illustrated in b&w and color. 8vo, wraps. Milan, Electa Architecture and Paris, Fondation Le Corbusier, 2002.
A facsimile edition.
Item nr. 102222
$ 29.95
Gresleri,Giuliano. 80 Disegni di LE CORBUSIER. 117 pages, including 22 color and 62 b&w plates. 4to, wraps. Bologna, Edizioni Ente Fiere di Bologna, 1977.
Text in Italian.
Item nr. 114587
$ 50.00
de Smet, Catherine. LE CORBUSIER: Architect of Books. 128 pp., fully illustrated in color. 4to, boards. Baden, Lars Muller Publishers, 2005.
Published to accompany an exhibition.
Item nr. 115474
$ 50.00
Baltanas, Jose. Walking Through LE CORBUSIER: A Tour of His Masterworks. 192 pp., 247 color and 130 b&w illustrations. Oblong 4to, boards. London and New York, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Item nr. 117100
$ 45.00
Ruegg, Arthur. [RENE BURRI] Pour Le Courbusier. 84 folding pages, illustrated in b&w. 8vo, boards. Baden, Lars Muller, 2006.
Item nr. 120370
$ 45.00
Von Moos, Stanislaus et al.. LE CORBUSIER: The Art of Architecture. 398 pp., illustrated throughout in color and b&w. 4to, cloth-backed boards. Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum, 2007.
Divided into three sections entitled 'Contexts', 'Privacy and Publicity' and 'Built Art', the show also focuses on major themes in his work, such as his ongoing interest in the Mediterranean and the Orient, his shift toward organic forms in the 1930s, as well as his exploration of new technologies and media. Accompanies a travelling exhibition.
Item nr. 124757
$ 160.00
Cohen, Jean-Louis (introduction) with chapter introductions by Tim Benton. LE CORBUSIER: Le Grand. 768 pp., roughly 2,000 color and b&w photographs, reproductions, daiagrams and floorplans. With separate English Translation of the Documents: unpaginated, illustrated in b&w. Folios, boards in slipcase. London and New York, Phaidon Press, 2008.
A visual biography of this influential modernist architect, urban planner, and theorist.
Approximately 2000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, inform his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture.
Item nr. 128108
$ 200.00
Weber, Nicholas Fox. LE CORBUSIER: A Life. 944 pages. cloth. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Not in stock. Publication announced for November 2008
Item nr. 130459
$ 45.00
Perroud, Eveline [photographer]. LE CORBUSIER: Opus 1. Text by Martin Veith.132 pp., roughly 50 color plates. 4to, boards. Sulgen, Verlag Niggli, 2007.
Text in English, French and German.
The 2000 restoration of Le Corbusier's first project, La Maison Blanche, is documented by photographer Eveline Perroud.
Item nr. 131421
$ 69.95
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