Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret: Chandigarh, India

$190.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Hardcover by Patrick Seguin (Editor), Le Corbusier (Artist), Pierre Jeanneret (Artist) This beautiful, comprehensive volume documents Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret's massive Chandigarh project―the buildings and the furniture (today considered masterpieces of twentieth-century architecture and design), the plans, sketches and maquettes as well as reproducing both archival and contemporary photographs. In 1947, shortly after India gained independence, the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru initiated a…