LE CORBUSIER
ARKITEKTUR, MALERI, SKULPTUR, GOBELINER
Ebjørn Hjort [Editor] Theo Crosby [Designer]
[Le Corbusier ] Ebjørn Hjort [Editor] Theo Crosby [Designer]: LE CORBUSIER: ARKITEKTUR, MALERI, SKULPTUR, GOBELINER. København: Kunstindustrimuseet, 1958. First edition. Text in Danish. Slim Octavo. Thick printed wrappers. Unpaginated [76] pp. 54 black and white reproductions. Multiple paper stocks. Elaborate graphic design throughout. Binding tight and square with unmarked and very clean interior. Black, red and white thin card cover representing the Modular. Wrappers lightly soiled and edgeworn. A very good or better copy. Uncommon.
6 x 9 perfect-bound softcover catalog with 76 pages, including 54 reproductions, catalog of 54 works in the exhibition, plates, maps, plans diagrams etc. ; Various introductory comments, Le Corbusier by himself, biography, chronology; etc. Catalog for an exhibition at the Kunstindustrimuseet, Kopenhagen from 17 October 1958 - 9 November 1958. Follows the style of the original production for the 1st mounting of the exhibition in Zurich in the summer of 1957.
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.