Allais Alphonse

1806 · réf. SAVLD129 — Paris: Detournelle & J. Charles 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant folio 500 x 340mm. Collation complete: 120 plates of French Architecture and plans including the Arc de Triomphe Place de la Concorde and other famous Academy projects. With woodcut vignette of cornucopia and muse on title-page table “generale” listing architectural designs and copper engraved title-page listing academy members. Three-quarter calf-backed over tree-design boards; scattered marginal foxing. Late 19th-century armorial bookplate of Hoffmann Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann on front pastedown. Hoffmann 1870-1956 was an influential Austrian architect who won the Rome Prize in 1895. Known for his contributions to the arts and crafts movement Hoffmann also designed rooms for the Paris Expositions Universelle in 1900. Second series of this magnificent collection of the 1806 Projets d’Architecture 120 fine French Academy competition plates by Allais Detournelle and Vaudoyer which followed a previous publication of Prieur c. 1787-1801 originally issued in 20 cahiers. As these Grands Prix engravings show Academy neoclassicists revived eclectic motifs from antiquity with their prominent use of obelisks pyramids and blank walls in their design. “Egpytianizing” forms were becoming part of the landscape of Parisian architecture and were used to achieve a solemn appearance; this style was fascinating to young Academics who still wanted to maintain regal tradition. Notably the Grands Prix drawings contain the Chapelle Sepulchrale by la Barre which demonstrated many of these Egyptian design elements including Pantheon-domes pyramids sphinxes and sarcophagi. This fine production of accomplished watercolors was primarily meant for the education of young Academics in this successful architectural style. Many plates include the scale given in French toises or metres. It continued the Collection des Prix 1787-1801 and was continued as the Grands Prix d’Architecture in 1818. Second series of this magnificent collection of the 1806 Projets d’Architecture 120 fine French Academy competition plates by Allais Detournelle and Vaudoyer which followed a previous publication of Prieur c. 1787-1801 originally issued in 20 cahiers. As these Grands Prix engravings show Academy neoclassicists revived eclectic motifs from antiquity with their prominent use of obelisks pyramids and blank walls in their design. “Egpytianizing” forms were becoming part of the landscape of Parisian architecture and were used to achieve a solemn appearance; this style was fascinating to young Academics who still wanted to maintain regal tradition. Notably the Grands Prix drawings contain the Chapelle Sepulchrale by la Barre which demonstrated many of these Egyptian design elements including Pantheon-domes pyramids sphinxes and sarcophagi. This fine production of accomplished watercolors was primarily meant for the education of young Academics in this successful architectural style. Many plates include the scale given in French toises or metres. It continued the Collection des Prix 1787-1801 and was continued as the Grands Prix d’Architecture in 1818. Detournelle & J. Charles hardcover books