La bibliothèque

Essayage: Peut-on remeubler la villa Savoye ?

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:46:31 +0100

Depuis près de 60 ans la villa Savoye est vide de meubles. Patrimoine emblématique de l’architecture puriste et moderne, cette maison d’habitation initialement conçue par Le Corbusier comme une résidence secondaire est devenue, au fil des ans, un lieu que l’on arpente, que l’on visite et pour lequel on se déplace du monde entier. ....

Pédagogique, expérimentale et pourquoi pas polémique, «Essayage» propose une promenade design unique au coeur de la «promenade architecturale» si chère à Le Corbusier. Pour la première fois depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une exposition présente du mobilier contemporain dans cette architecture emblematique, et soulève la question du rapport à l’habitat dans cette maison qui n’est plus habitée. ....

Commissariat: Céline Caumon et Cédric Morisset
Partenariat: Vitra
Avant-propos: Jacqueline ROBIN
Couverture et illustrations: Jean-Philippe DELHOMME
Editions du Patrimoine, 2007

design contre design - deux siècles de créations

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:28:50 +0100

Design contre Design se propose de créer des courts-circuits, des confrontations, des dialogues entre meubles et objets des deux derniers siècles. Courts-circuits dans le temps et dans le genre. Se libérant des catégories dans lesquelles on les avait jusqu’ici cantonnés, les objets viennent sur le devant de la scène. Publié à l’occasion de l’exposition présentée aux Galeries nationales du Grand Palais à Paris, cet album témoigne de l’influence croissante du design dans tous les domaines de la vie.

Textes: Jean-Louis GAILLEMIN
Edition: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007

Danish Chairs

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:20:11 +0100

The ways of living and thinking of a people are marked by the local environment, the natural features of the land, and the people’s history. Moreover, as the goods people make and use show their spirituality, the various types of designs that come under the rubric of «Danish modern» express the heart and culture of the Danish people.

Author: Noritsugu Oda
Text: Takako Murakami
Translator: Patricia Yamada
Photographer: Yoshio Hayashi
Publisher: World Photo Press

Blackwell: The Arts & Crafts House Architect: M.H. Baillie Scott

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:05:05 +0100

Blackwell was built as a rural holiday retreat for the Manchester brewery owner, Edward Holt (1849-1928).
At the time Baillie Scott was an important figure in the develoment of European domestic architecture and Britain was very much at the forefront in this field. Blackwell is regarded as a pivotal building in the oeuvre of Baillie Scott and is the largest commission of the early phase of his career. Built as a grand holiday home, it represented a major opportunity to realise many of his ideas which, up until then, he had only produced in watercolours, drawings or imaginary schemes. It is all the more remarkable, and rare for a house of this period, that Blackwell has largely escaped any alterations and almost all of its original decorative features have survived.

Publisher: The Lakeland Arts Trust, 2005
www.blackwell.org.uk

Arne Jacobsen Drawings 1958 - 1965

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:47:15 +0100

Drawing has always been a basic, fundamental discipline at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen. Jacobsen’s teachers belonged to the first generation of modern architects, and as such they were capable of revising the school’s curriculum. Antiquity ceased to be the focus of stylistic and mimetic reference, although it was still studied for its symbolic value: the styles were no longer important, but classical proportion retained all of its relevance and interest. This attitude profoundly influenced the students. ... Jacobsen possessed that twofold virtue of the architects of his generation: the sensibility of knowing how to see and the ability to express what he saw supremely well, an indispensable combination in the world of architecture.

Author: Félix SOLAGUREN-BEASCOA
Editor: Jorgen Hegner Christiansen
Translation: Graham Thomson
Publisher: The Danish Architectural Press, 2002