Four Hand-Drawn Architectural Drawings – Architect Hillel Robert Chelouche – For One of the Family's Houses

Four Hand-Drawn Architectural Drawings – Architect Hillel Robert Chelouche – For One of the Family's Houses
Four architectural drawings for one of the Chelouche family's houses, by architect Hillel Robert Chelouche. [1930s/1940s].
Elevations in ink, pencil and watercolors, depicting all four sides of one of the Chelouche family's houses. The name of the project appears on top – "Villa Atelier, Propriete de M. Chelouche". With architect's signature on bottom – "R. Chelouche" (Hillel Robert Chelouche).
The Chelouche family is considered one of the oldest and most important families in the history of the Hebrew Yishuv, one of the founders of the Neveh Tzeddek and Achuzat Bayit neighborhoods and the city of Tel-Aviv. Abraham Chelouche immigrated to Palestine from North Africa in 1838, settling with his family in Jaffa and becoming one of the leaders of the Jewish community in the city. His son Aaron purchased the land on which the Neveh Shalom and Neveh Tzeddek neighborhoods were established and Aaron's son, Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche, built thirty-two of the houses of Achuzat Bayit. The history of the Chelouche family is woven into the history of Tel-Aviv and its sons built their homes in the first streets of the city – some of them amongst the most beautiful and impressive houses in the city.
Architect Hillel Chelouche, Abraham's great grandson, was born in 1904 to Yosef and Farha Simha Chelouche. At the age of 15, he was sent to study architecture in Paris, where he adopted the French name Robert. After returning to Palestine in 1933, he planned most of his brother's and relatives' houses, alongside dozens of other buildings throughout Palestine.
29X45 to 32X54 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minute holes and tears to margins (a 3-cm-long tear to one drawing). A small pencil sketch on verso of one sheet.