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Fig. 15

From: White, everything white? Josef Frank’s Villa Beer (1930) in Vienna, and its materiality in the context of the discourse on ‘white cubes’

Fig. 15

Le Corbusier, Paris, Maisons La Roche-Jeanneret (double-house), Square du Docteur-Blanche in Paris (1923), 2008–2009 Restoration campaign led by architect Pierre-Antoine Gatier, probe: Ariel Bertrand. The main facade consists of a smoothed natural plaster of yellowish limestone, lime and white cement (?); the surface of the plaster shows that the surface is darker than the mortar matrix, probably due to sulfatation and sintering (Source: Ariel Bertrand, Paris 2008)

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