"J
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will make you see all colors."
The sentence, written by India Mahdavi floats on a blank page at the beginning of her monograph.
Published this month by Éditions Chronicle Books, the work traces the architect's career like an explosion of nuances: his obsession with assumed, vivid, frank colors is palpable - it is not for nothing that it is nicknamed "The Queen of Colors".
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Perhaps it is linked to her earliest childhood memories, she who has just landed from Tehran on Yankee soil?
The acidic colors of America from the 1960s, Tex Avery's cartoons in Technicolor, the orange light typical of the East Coast of the United States, imprint his retina indelibly, synonymous with moments of happiness and great carefree.
Then, after a second move and a year in the German gray, parents and children put down their suitcases in Vence, in the south of France.
The young Iranian finds with relief the azure sky and the bright day, bathed
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