Interior view of an apartment showing stairs, Unité d'habitation, Marseille, France

People:

Lucien Hervé (photographer)
Le Corbusier (interior designer)
Le Corbusier (architect)
André Wogenscky (architect)
Vladimir Bodiansky (engineer)

Title:

Interior view of an apartment showing stairs, Unité d'habitation, Marseille, France

Date:

1952 or later

Description:

- A group of 178 gelatin silver prints acquired from Lucien Hervé in 1985 are of built works by Le Corbusier in France including: 124 photographs of Unité d'habitation, Marseille, 19 photographs of Maison A Jaoul and Maison B Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 34 photographs of Villa Savoye, Poissy, and one photograph of a building, possibly by Fernand Pouillon, possibly located in France. The prints are of different sizes and show details and general views, predominantly exteriors of the buildings.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16.6 x 16.6 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0750

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

numbered - by an unknown hand, in red ball-point pen, on the print, verso, l.r.: "XVI - 114" [diagonally; "XVI" underlined] stamped - in pink ink, on the print, verso, u.r.: "COPYRIGHT / BY LUCIEN HERVÉ / PARIS 19.." [diagonally, within rectangle] stamped - in pink ink, on the print, verso, c.l. to l.c.: "Photo Lucien HERVÉ / 31, rue Vineuse, PARIS 16e - PASsy 20 - 65 / MENTION du NOM OBLIGATOIRE / ses Droits de reproduction réservés - Copyright / OEuvre de Monsieur LECORBUSIER / ses Droits réservés SPADEM - PARIS" ["ses Droits réservés SPADEM - PARIS" crossed out in pen and green ink; entire inscription over top of another stamped inscription in blue ink] stamped - in blue ink, c. to l.c.: "lucien hervé / tous droits de reproduction réservés / [with illeg. text] / 11, RUE SOYER / NEUILLY-S SEINE / MAI. 64-66" [text partially obscured by overlaying stamp]

Location:

France

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

stairs

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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