Le Corbusier e la villa Savoye: un caso di restauro autoriale / Le Corbusier and the villa Savoye: a case of authorial restoration Susanna Caccia Gherardini University of Florence, Italy Firenze University Press Florence 2023 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0181-0

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Following the investigative paths, the author interlaces a series of documents and clues to delineate the events of the restoration of the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, but above all the role played by the various actors involved in this story, which is still not closed. From George Everard Kidder Smith to the multifaceted Jean-Louis Véret, who would in fact become the villa’s most stubborn conservator and interpreter, starting with the writing of his Carnet d’identité, one of the most ambiguous and fascinating sources for the history of the restoration of modern architecture. Susanna Caccia Gherardini, thanks to her research time as Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, thus adds a new piece to the studies she has already published on the subject.

Seguendo i percorsi di indagine indiziaria, l’autrice intreccia una serie di documenti e spunti per delineare le vicende dei restauri della villa Savoye di Le Corbusier, ma soprattutto indaga il ruolo giocato dai diversi attori coinvolti in questa storia, ancora oggi non chiusa. Da George Everard Kidder Smith al poliedrico Jean-Louis Véret, che diverrà il più accanito conservatore e interprete della villa, a partire dalla stesura del suo Carnet d’identité, una delle fonti più ambigue e affascinanti per la storia del restauro del moderno. Susanna Caccia Gherardini, grazie al periodo di ricerca come Guest Scholar presso il Getty Conservation Institute di Los Angeles, aggiunge così un nuovo tassello ai diversi studi già da lei pubblicati sull’argomento Following the investigative paths, the author interlaces a series of documents and clues to delineate the events of the restoration of the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, but above all the role played by the various actors involved in this story, which is still not closed. From George Everard Kidder Smith to the multifaceted Jean-Louis Véret, who would in fact become the villa’s most stubborn conservator and interpreter, starting with the writing of his Carnet d’identité, one of the most ambiguous and fascinating sources for the history of the restoration of modern architecture. Susanna Caccia Gherardini, thanks to her research time as Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, thus adds a new piece to the studies she has already published on the subject.

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