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AdmittedLe Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret · 1926–1928 (model 1970)
Before you is Les Terrasses, Villa Stein-de-Monzie, Garches, France (Scale model, 1:33.3) — an architectural work by the French artist Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret, nineteen twenty-six to nineteen twenty-eight (model nineteen seventy). Acrylic, a pigment suspended in plastic emulsion that dries in minutes and stays flexible afterwards. Somewhere in there: the house, and the architectural plan. Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret was part of the modern architecture movement.
Medium Acrylic, wood, metal and paint · Dimensions 35 1/4 × 35 1/4 × 20 7/8" (89.5 × 89.5 × 53 cm) Vitrine: 30 × 45 × 45" (76.2 × 114.3 × 114.3 cm) Tray: 3 × 45 × 45" (7.6 × 114.3 × 114.3 cm) · Credit Lily Auchincloss Fund
Hanging beside it in Gallery 513: Adjustable Table, Extendable Table from E-1027
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic (Scale model of final version, 1:30), American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project (Exterior perspective of model E3), Davidson Little Farms Unit Project (Model), American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company, project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Perspective of model A243
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.