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Le Corbusier's Book.

post #1 of 12
6/19/07 at 2:41am
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Would you bind a book in the skin of your pet? That is what Le Corbusier did with a copy of Don Quixote with the skin of his dog--I don't believe it was his wife, however.



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post #2 of 12
6/19/07 at 11:03am
Some people are just very sentimental.
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post #3 of 12
6/19/07 at 11:45am
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Originally Posted by shoreman1782 View Post
Some people are just very sentimental.

Or just strange.
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post #4 of 12
6/19/07 at 1:25pm
I would certainly put Le Corbusier in that category.

JB
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post #5 of 12
6/19/07 at 1:31pm
La mancha del perro.

Jon.
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post #6 of 12
6/19/07 at 2:24pm
When I was in middle school we had an English motivational speaker who told my class that he had his dog stuffed and kept in the bedroom because from the day the dog was born he never spent a night without his master. A classmate asked what happened when he traveled and he said he still took the dog with him, though most it of the time it was easy since he traveled by RV.
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post #7 of 12
6/19/07 at 10:53pm
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Would you bind a book in the skin of your pet? That is what Le Corbusier did with a copy of Don Quixote with the skin of his dog--I don't believe it was his wife, however.
Why Don Quixote?
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post #8 of 12
6/19/07 at 11:39pm
Because his dog ran into a wind-mill and died?
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post #9 of 12
6/19/07 at 11:50pm
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post #10 of 12
6/20/07 at 12:07pm
My girlfriend and I went to see an exhibit of Le Corbusier's work at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi, Tokyo the weekend before last. They had a full-scale mock-up of his studio and that book was one of the displays.
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post #11 of 12
6/21/07 at 4:44pm
the guy was definitely something of an interesting charachter
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post #12 of 12
7/2/07 at 1:10am
binding a favorite book with the pelt of a favorite pet strikes me as kind of sweet and sentimental. This is something else entirely -The Boston Athenaeum has an 1837 copy of George Walton's memoirs bound in his own skin. Walton was a highwayman -- a robber who specialized in ambushing travelers -- and he left the volume to one of his victims, John Fenno. Fenno's daughter gave it to the library.
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