Log in

No account? Create an account

Remember me

By logging in to LiveJournal using a third-party service you accept LiveJournal's User agreement

: Katya Knyazeva (avezink) wrote,
2020-01-04 21:53:00

Katya Knyazeva
avezink
2020-01-04 21:53:00

Leonard and Veysseyre, portraits

A nice portrait of the architect Alexandre Leonard, in 1931. His confidence and expertise shines through, in this anonymous photograph in Le journal de Shanghai:

And here is Paul Veysseyre, also 1931:

I prefer this glamour shot from 1926, on the page with the luxurious interiors of the recently opened French Club. Big Leonard and small Veysseyre – indicating their proportionate involvement in the design of the building?

Tags: 1930, 1930s, architects, french, leonard, leonard & veysseyre, photo studio, shanghai, veysseyre

Fake preservation alert: Wanzhu Street mansion

Like "Fake News" – the global danger that the audiences have been learning to recognize and resist – the city of Shanghai…
Shanghai compared to London, in 1932

This entertaining map appeared on the pages of North-China Sunday News in February 1932. It shows the distance from the North Railway Station to…
4,500 historic images of Shanghai mapped on PastVu

Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of images from the latest hundred. None of these…

Post a new comment
0 comments

Log in

Leonard and Veysseyre, portraits

Fake preservation alert: Wanzhu Street mansion

Shanghai compared to London, in 1932

4,500 historic images of Shanghai mapped on PastVu

Error