Architecture - Lot 180

Architecture SOUPRE (Joseph-Pascal and Jean) - 1/ Houses of the Basque Country, Navarre, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Alava. Sinjon, sd. - 2/ Houses of the Basque Country Labourd, Basse-Navarre, Soule. Text by E. Lambert. Paris, A. Sinjon, sd. [1928]. 2 volumes in-4 in sheets: 2f., 56 plates / 7f., 56 plates. In hard mastic publisher's folder, mastic percaline spine, lace fastenings, labels glued to boards "Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des Beaux-arts (Prix Bernier 1941)". Good condition. The SOUPRE brothers were twins who studied in Bayonne, then went into partnership as architects with 2 separate firms: one in Paris, the other in Bayonne. They were responsible for many public and private buildings in the region. Jean, from Bayonne, was president of the Syndicat des Architectes des Basses Pyrénées et des Landes. (Bilbao VII, 539)