Author: LE CORBUSIER (JEANNERET, CHARLES-ÉDOUARD):
Title: Le Modulor and Modulor 2. Éditions de L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. Two volumes. Boulogne, 1950 & 1955.
Description: . Square small 4to. (14.7 x 14.7 cm). Pp. 239, (1); 341, (3). Richly illustrated throughout b y the author. As issued in original coloured decorated dust jacket over stiff card wrappers. Some minor wear to covers, small tears, chipped along edges of rear cover of volume two and remains of old label on rear cover of volume one. Bookseller label on front paste-down of volume one. First edition. The Modulor is Le Corbusier's famous treatise on universal measurement in terms of anthropometric scale of proportions, tailored to the average human body. It was used as a system in the design of several of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified into two books. His use of type and images in his books was truly revolutionary for twentieth-century design.
Keywords: Design, design, architecture,
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Title: Le Modulor and Modulor 2. Éditions de L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. Two volumes. Boulogne, 1950 & 1955.
Description: . Square small 4to. (14.7 x 14.7 cm). Pp. 239, (1); 341, (3). Richly illustrated throughout b y the author. As issued in original coloured decorated dust jacket over stiff card wrappers. Some minor wear to covers, small tears, chipped along edges of rear cover of volume two and remains of old label on rear cover of volume one. Bookseller label on front paste-down of volume one. First edition. The Modulor is Le Corbusier's famous treatise on universal measurement in terms of anthropometric scale of proportions, tailored to the average human body. It was used as a system in the design of several of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified into two books. His use of type and images in his books was truly revolutionary for twentieth-century design.
Keywords: Design, design, architecture,
Price: EUR 800.00 = appr. US$ 869.48 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 121610
- Book number: 121610
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