LE CORBUSIER ET PIERRE JEANNERET
OEUVRE COMPLETE DE 1910 -1929

Le Corbusier, Willy Boesiger and Oscar Stonorov

11 x 9 hardcover book with 216 pages and 600 black and white photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans. The first volume in the Le Corbusier "Oeuvre Complète" series, recording his designs for the Maisons Domino, Maison Monol, Villa Meyer, Maison Citrohan, Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau, Villa La Roche/Villa Jeanneret, Paris, Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine etc., Furniture, Lithographs, Paintings, Sculpture, Sketches, Periodicals and much more. A nice early edition from one of the great architectural publishing ventures of the 20th century.

No disrespect to Birkhauser, but the contemporary reprints of this series cannot hold a candle to the sharp image engraving or the crisp feel of the type on the glossy pages. The stamped cloth covers also help make examining these volumes a very tactile experience.

"Almost 40 years ago, when the first volume in this series appeared, not one of us, neither Le Corbusier nor the editor and publisher thought that the "Oeuvre Complete" would eventually encompass seven volumes. That this was possible was due to two facts.

Firstly of course Le Corbusier himself. And secondly, chance had it that at that time a young architect enthusiastically tackled the task to introduce Le Corbusier's works to the world. In 1929, after a year of apprenticeship in Le Corbusier's office, Willy Boesiger together with his friend Oscar Stonorov undertook to collect the works of his then 42 year old honored master. The book appeared in my newly founded publishing house. To Willy Boesiger -- who would never dream of publicizing his own architectural works -- do the publishers extend their heartfelt thanks.

As these lines are about to go into print, news reaches me that today the 27th August 1965 Le Corbusier died of a heart attack while swimming in the sea off Cap Martin. Thus this seventh volume will inevitably be the last of his "Oeuvre Complete." -- Hans Girsberger [Volume 7]

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn't until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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