Architect: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Summerson: The Little House

Summerson: The Little House

John Summerson

– John Summerson, ‘Heavenly Mansions: An Interpretation of Gothic,’ in Heavenly Mansions, and other Essays on Architecture (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963), 1-3.

VIOLLET-LE-DUC: Mont Blanc

VIOLLET-LE-DUC: Mont Blanc

Martin Bressani

Viollet-le-Duc

Viollet-le-Duc

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

From a letter to Mérimée written in 1843 from Vézelay: You, Sir, who have ceaselessly lived the life of the past, you understand the joy, the secret happiness felt when we can record in our sketchbook some of these forgotten [historical] treasures … but how much more interesting when these… Read More