• Le Corbusier (architect)
• Atelier Le Corbusier (draughtsman)
• Balkrishna V. Doshi (draughtsman)
• Chinubhai Chimanbhai (client)

Villa Chimanbhai: Design development prints

before 20 September 1954

- Part of a larger group of reprographic copies and other works from the design development process of Le Corbusier's unexecuted Villa Chimanbhai project, acquired from the Chimanbhai family. Included are at least three series of reprographic copies -- some with annotated changes -- a model, photographs of a different model, cut-outs sent to the client which demonstrate changes in the size and plan of individual rooms, and related letters. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.

• design development drawings

Diazotypes with additions in graphite, coloured pencil, and/or black ink

sheet (smallest): 30 x 42 cm sheet (largest): 69,9 x 81,8 cm

DR1990:0020:001-015

• line drawings

• plans (drawings)
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

- Vertical and horizontal old folds in all of the prints.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, on all diazotypes except DR1990:0020:015, in pen and black ink, u.r.: with drawing no., title and date inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on some originals and diazotypes, in various locations: with notes, compass points, and measurements inscribed - by an unknown hand, on some of the originals, throughout: with numbers identifying rooms ? and letters identifying sections signed and inscribed - on DR1990:0020:0015, by the draughtsman ? on the original and the diazotype, l.r.: "A.C.C. 4921 [on original] bis [on diazotype in black ink] / DESSINE LE 8 FEVRIER 1954 PAR DOSHI" [on original] signed and dated - on DR1990:0020:0015, by the architect, in graphite, on the diazotype, l.r.: "Le Corbusier. [underlined] / 20 Sept 54" inscribed - on DR1990:0020:012, by the architect ? on the original l.c.: with notes [barely visible]; l.r.: with notes, ending with "...a demande a L.C. 25 ["5" is written over "6"] -2-54" inscribed - on DR1990:0020:002, by the architect, in graphite, on the diazotype, b.: "Le Corbusier / 10th December" [written upside-down]

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