Although he was one of the most important figures of the Modern Movement in emigration Karol Schayer is little known outside Lebanon. Using a wealth of previously unpublished original documents and illustrations this monograph reconstructs Schayer s early career in Poland (1927 39), his years as an emigre in Turkey and Palestine (1939 46), and then his very successful and important creative period in architecture and furniture design in Lebanon (1946 70) with his successive partners Fritz Gotthelf, Bahij Makdisi and Wassek Adib. Thus the lifework of this modernist architect becomes...
Although he was one of the most important figures of the Modern Movement in emigration Karol Schayer is little known outside Lebanon. Using a wealth o...
