- Object name(s):
- Architectural drawing
- Brief description:
- First floor plan for the Livraria da Vila bookstore in Sao Paulo, by Isay Weinfeld, 2007
- Brief description:
- First floor plan for the Livraria da Vila bookstore in Sao Paulo, rendered in pencil and coloured pencil on tracing paper. Load bearing walls have been rendered in green coloured pencil. Portugese annotations in pencil are visible throughout the plan. Vertical lines at the top right depict the descending staircase, whilst the square drawn in the top left corner houses the elevator.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Drawings
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Associated concept:
- Architecture
- Associated place:
- Sao Paulo
- Content - concept:
- plan
- Content - concept:
- bookshop
- Credit line:
- Given by Isay Weinfeld Studio
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2014HG5926/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 17.8
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 51.1
- Material:
- pencil
- Material:
- coloured pencil
- Material:
- tracing paper
- Object name:
- Architectural drawing (visual work)
- Object number:
- E.718-2014
- Object production date:
- 2007
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 2007-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 2007-12-31
- Object production person:
- Isay Weinfeld
- Person's association:
- architect
- Object production person:
- Domingos Pascali
- Person's biographical note:
- Domingos Pascali for Isay Weinfeld Studio
- Object production place:
- Sao Paulo
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- First floor plan for the Livraria da Vila bookstore in Sao Paulo, rendered in pencil and coloured pencil on tracing paper. Load bearing walls have been rendered in green coloured pencil. Portugese annotations in pencil are visible throughout the plan. Vertical lines at the top right depict the descending staircase, whilst the square drawn in the top left corner houses the elevator.
- Reproduction number:
- 2014HG5926
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- drawing
- Technique:
- Pencil and coloured pencil on tracing paper
- Text:
- Isay Weinfeld is an award winning Brazilian architect with over 30 years of architectural experience designing civic spaces, residential homes, commercial buildings, hotels and restaurants in Brazil and worldwide. This collection of architectural drawings for the Livraria da Vila bookshop in Sao Paulo is a good example of the architectural design process, showing both rough perspective plans as well as more highly finished interior schemes. The architectural drawings were created for the Livraria da Vila bookshop in the prestigious Jardim Paulista area of Sao Paulo. As a result of the widely acclaimed structure, Weinfeld was commissioned to design two subsequent Livraria da Vila branches located around Brazil. Weinfeld’s design brief was to create a space that reflected the client’s belief that bookstores should be cultural hubs as well as places of commerce. To achieve this, Weinfeld incorporated into his scheme a small lecture auditorium, a café and a storytelling area for children. One of the striking elements of the Livraria da Vila’s design is the pivoting glass-fronted, steel framed doors lined with books that form the entrance to the bookshop during opening hours. Weinfeld’s inspiration for this design element is said to be les bouquinistes, the Parisian second-hand booksellers that line the banks of the river Seine selling books beneath their green wooden awning boxes. These drawings are particularly significant to the Collection as they mark the V&A’s first acquisition of a South American architect’s work.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Barreneche, Raul A., 2012. Isay Weinfeld: projetos comerciais. Translated from Portugese by O. Nunes and L.Folgueira. Sao Paulo, Bei Comunicação.
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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