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London: Thames and Hudson, 1957. 1st English Edition.Text by Rayner Heppenstall and a Preface by Le CorbusierThe book's main selling point is Lucien Hervé's classic black-and-white photos, first published in 1956, of the Abbey Le Thoronet. Le Thoronet Abbey, one of the wonders of twelfth-century Cistercian architecture and still revered by architects today, nestles in a wooded valley in Provence, South of France. This book is a pictorial appreciation of the abbey, photographed by Lucien Hervé in the mid-1950s and introduced by Le Corbusier.Turquoise cloth hard cover book is in very good clean condition with a little signs of wear around the edges. Previous owner's inscription inside 2nd page in ink dated 1960.Dust jacket has many tears and has been mended with tape.
ARCHITECTURE OF TRUTH: The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronnet in Provence. by Heppenstall, Rayner; Le Corbusier - (1957).
by Heppenstall, Rayner; Le Corbusier
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ARCHITECTURE OF TRUTH: The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronnet in Provence.
by Heppenstall, Rayner; Le Corbusier
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New York: George Braziller, (1957)., (1957).. Good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], cream buckram. The tail of the spine is chipped & frayed with a tiny stain and the top corner of the rear cover is frayed. xix & 164 pages. Numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations by Lucien Herve. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper & the book is lightly cracked at the half-title. The gutters are slightly darkened. Good. <p>First American edition.<p>"Photographed by Lucien Herve and arranged with quotations and notes by Francois Cali. With a Text by Rayner Heppenstall and a Preface by Le Corbusier.
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- Keywords ARCHITECTURE; CISTERCIAN ARCHITECTURE; TWELFTH CENTURY FRANCE; 12TH CENTURY FRANCE; MIDDLE AGES; THEOLOGY; FRENCH ABBEY; ARCHITECTURE OF TRUTH: The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronnet in Provence; RAYNER HEPPENSTALL; LE CORBUSIER; PHOTOGRAPHER; LUCIEN HERVE;
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