Le Corbusier vs Salvador Dali & Terry (Modernism vs Surrealism in Architecture) - Chenonceau 11

MoMA exhibition 1936: Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, surrealist architecture, Terry’s ‘a dream to be realized’ versus Le Corbusier’s ‘a machine for living in’, Edward James’s Les Ballets 1933, Charles de Beistegui’s penthouse in Paris designed by Le Corbusier and his Bal du siècle (“Party of the Century”) in Venice, 1951 PERSONAE, in order of appearance: José Emilio Terry y Sánchez (1890–1969), Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Meret Oppenheim, Eileen Agar, Leonor Fini, Carl Van Vechten, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Edward James, Mae West, Tilly Losch, Charles Boyer, Marlene Dietrich, Jacques Tati, Ted Benoit, Bruno Taut, Hermann Finsterlin, Frederick Kiesler, Bruce Goff, Engelbert Kremser, Ferdinand Cheval, Rainier III of Monaco, Grace Kelly, Charles de Beistegui, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena BUILDINGS etc.: Emilio Terry’s design of a double-spiral house (“en colimaçon” - snail style); Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye (near Paris); Monkton House (West Dean, Sussex) refurbished by Edward James; Surrealist garden at Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico designed by Edward James; Charles de Beistegui’s Apartment (Champs Elysées, Paris) by Le Corbusier; Jacques Tati’s Le Corbusier House in his movie ‘Mon Oncle’; Glass Pavilion - Bruno Taut; Glass House - Hermann Finsterlin; Endless House Project - Frederick Kiesler; Bavinger House at Norman (US) - Bruce Goff; Design Berlin Europe-Center - Engelbert Kremser; Le Palais Idéal at Hauterives (Fr) - Ferdinand Cheval; Princes Grace’s apartment in the royal palais of Monaco – Emilio Terry; Château de Groussay at Montfort-l’Amaury (Fr) – interior design Emilio Terry; Palazzo Labia at Venice (It); Margravial Opera House at Bayreuth (Ger) - Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Château de Groussay’s follies - Emilio Terry: Palladio Bridge, Ledoux Pyramid, Chinese Pagode, Tartar Tent and Observation Column; Château Chenonceau MUSIC --Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company; Piano: Jonathan Biss & Jeremy Denk. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston - --Arcangelo Corelli 1714 - Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 - Concerto no. 4 in D major () See my Playlist: