Herzog Jacques and De Meuron Pierre (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 140 pages with 71 color & 10 bw.illustrations - In 2008, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei joined forces to design the celebrated Beijing National Stadium for the Olympic Games. In 2012, the team came together again for the Serpentine Gallery s acclaimed annual commission, as part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. Their pavilion takes visitors beneath the Serpentine s lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous pavilions. Supporting the structure from below, eleven columns symbolize past pavilions, and a twelfth represents the current one. The pavilion s interior is clad in cork, to evoke the excavated earth, and is built as a network of pathways and trenches. Herzog & de Meuron and Weiwei s archaeological approach creates a space that invites visitors to look beneath the surface of the park as well as back in time to the inspiration of earlier structures.…

Condition: As New. Paperback. Title of the book: "An Exhibition of Paintings by Marcel Belle (1871-1948).12th june -14th July 1973. Published by Kaplan Gallery, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Ian Schrager Company and RFR, nd but circa 2007. Hardcover in silver die-cut decorated dust jacket (replicating the Gaudiesque sculptural aluminum gate adorning the front of 40 Bond) housed in clear, light-blue lucite slipcase. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, unpaginated (with circa 60 pages) filled with numerous color photographic images throughout celebrating the exterior and interior of the building as well as other architectural buildings built by the same Swiss architects. The book served as an elaborate promotional and marketing publication celebrating the architectural wonders of 40 Bond Street, its interior (decorated by Ian Schrager), and the Swiss architectural firm that deigned it (Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron), as well as the neighborhood surrounding 40 Bond Street. A lavish limited edition produced and handed out to prospective buyers (includes a list of the building's amenities on the last 2 pages. Scarce. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine die-cut overlay dust jacket showing light rubbing to silver overlay; housed in a Fine lucite slipcase showing light overall rubbing to panels and edges.…