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Terms and conditions applyLe Corbusier Polychromie Architecturale: the Salubra Colours from 1931 and 1959
Arthur Ruegg
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Format: Book
Pages: 174
Publisher: Birkhauser
Date Published: May 2006
Stock Code: 55563
Binding: Hardback
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Le Corbusier designed two collections of colours for the Salubra wallpaper company, the Clavier de couleurs of 1931, with 43 colours, and the 1959 collection, with 20. Not content with the choice of 43 colours drawn from his experience as an architect and painter, he organized the tones on 12 sample cards in such a manner that one could use a slider to isolate or combine different sets of three to five colours. Each of these cards contained a different chromatic atmosphere, intended, when used, to produce a particular spatial effect. Thus Le Corbusier not only created a useful tool but also a kind of testament of the purist theory of colour. In 1959 he created a second collection reflecting the changes in his views, with 20 single colours assembled on a single clavier.
The Le Corbusier Polychromie Architecturale, the long awaited edition of Le Corbusier's chromatic legacy, was first reprinted in 1997, quickly sold out, and is an avidly sought collector's item. Now available in a revised edition, this exquisite three-volume boxed set contains chromatically perfect samples of the wallpapers, colour illustrations, sketches, and slide bands, all produced by a high-quality printing process, and then assembled and bound by hand. This extraordinary adventure into colour and the creative vision of modernism's greatest architect includes texts by Le Corbusier and a scholarly introduction by editor Arthur Regg.
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