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Daguerre Savoie

11 - (Architecture) – 10 volumes
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(Architecture) – 10 volumes - LE CORBUSIER. Chapelle N.-D. du Haut in Ronchamp. Introduction and text by Jean Petit. No place or date. Square quarto, [124 pp], paperback, with illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with a large number of photographs. - LE CORBUSIER. The Modulor (Essay on a harmonic measure on a human scale, universally applicable to architecture and mechanics). Modulor 2 (The floor is given to the users), a sequel to ‘The Modulor’. 2 square in-12 volumes, 240 and 344 pp, paperback, illustrated cover. Reprint of the first editions published in 1950 and 1955. Numerous illustrations. - A Convent by Le Corbusier. Volume produced by Jean Petit. Cahiers Forces Vives, 1961. Square in-8, publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. 143 pp., numerous illustrations. - LEMOINE (Bertrand). Monsieur Eiffel’s Tower. – Stories from Nowhere. Urban Utopias. 1789–2000. Paris, 2001. This exhibition catalogue presents utopian projects—some sensible, others outlandish—which are often realised in reality. - BELS (Marie). In the Footsteps of Ledoux. Marseille, 2004. Quarto, 176 pp, paperback. Reproductions of the plates containing Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s designs for the construction of the courthouse and prison in Aix-en-Provence. Illustrations in black and white and in colour. - KANTOR-KAZOVSKY (Lola). Piranesi as interpreter of Roman architecture and the origins of his intellectual world. Florence, 2006. In-8, 310 pp, [1 f], 27 plates, printed on coated paper, containing 65 illustrations, paperback. - Aimé Malécot. Architect. Saint-Étienne. Strasbourg, Société française d’édition d’art, (1937). In-4, [21 ff], paperback, printed cover. Aimé Malécot (1896–1960) was a ‘social’ architect. He played a pivotal role in the ‘social housing movement’. Numerous photographs of completed projects (mainly in the Loire region) and plans. Rare. - PICON (Antoine). Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment. Marseille, 2004. In-4, 320 pp, paperback. Illustrations. - Soufflot and his era. 1780–1980. Paris, Monuments historiques, 1980. Square In-8, 176 pp, paperback, illustrated cover. An exhibition catalogue presenting 330 items, many of which are reproduced and annotated. - News from Nowhere. Urban Utopias. Valence Museum, 2001. In-4, paperback.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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