Le Corbusier

Chaux-de Fonds/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, 1887/1965
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura, in 1887; he died in France, at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the French Côte d’Azur, in 1965.
Early in his career his work met with some resistance owing to its alleged «revolutionary» nature and the radical look it acquired from its «purist» experiments; in time , however, it won the recognition it deserved and it is still widely admired. His message is still being assimilated by an ever increasing number of people in the profession, but his far-out avant-garde attitudes should be interpreted with due consideration for the use of rational systems in his planning method, evidenced by extremely simple modules and formes based on the functional logic.
«Functionalism tending not so much to an exaltation of the mechanical function at the expense of the symbolic, as to the rejection of symbol that he now considers outmoded and insignificant and the restoration of the pratical function as a symbol of new values»
In his activities as town-planner, architect and designer, his method of research continued to develop, at times going to the opposite extremes of a rich plastic idiom.
Instances of this are:
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille (1946-52);
the Chapel at Ronchamp (1950-55);
the Dominican Monastery «La Tourette» (1951-56);
the Centre of Zurich (1964-65)
the Hospital in Venice (1965).
Much the same commitment will be found in the furniture of the Equipement intérieur de l’habitation (tables, chairs, armchairs, sofas) designed for the Salon d’Automne, 1928, with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand and “Casiers Standard”, system of container units designed for the Pavillon of the Esprit Nouveau, 1925, with Pierre Jeanneret.
Cassina reproposes this furniture considered “up-to-date”; its clear and essential “form” is highly adaptable to change in time and in environment, constantly providing new significance.

The products of this designer

LC15

Brand: Cassina

Table de conférence - Atelier Le Corbusier, Paris
A round table with steel lattice base, polished in LC colours (semigloss grey, green or black) with top in natural oak, black-stained oak or American walnut.
Le Corbusier designed a table in 1958, intended for both home décor and conferences with an organic structure that is also rational at the same time. The key to the project is the use of two geometrical fi gures set one against the other. The circle is a sturdy horizontal tabletop in oak and the cube is made of steel tubes, which form a weave of perpendicular levels with outstanding aesthetic value.

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LC14 Tabouret Nantes Rezé

Brand: Cassina

This stool/low table was created for the children’s rooms in the Unité d’Habitation in Nantes Rezé. Designed using the poetics of the objet trouvé, dear to Le Corbusier in the latter part of his life, this piece is now available with a number of added details compared to the original in the Cassina collection. Developed after the first design for the Tabouret Cabanon in 1952, whose main face measured 43cm x 43cm, this piece was a precursor to the 43cm x 33cm Tabouret du Brésil, the main difference being that its joints were less complex. The other two versions are characterised by dovetail joints while this version privileges simple right-angles. The different faces, in open-pore varnished oak, is available in two of the Corbusier palette colours: ultramarine blue and brown. The rectangular slots each side, featuring unrounded corners, are used for lifting and moving the stool.

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LC14 Tabourets

Brand: Cassina

LC14 01 Tabouret stool Cabanon
Designed in 1952 for the Cabanon, a hut built by Le Corbusier on the French Riviera, where alongside the many fi xed furnishings, the furniture was all conceived as boxes. This stool is Spartan and yet at the same time sophisticated due to its dovetail joints that highlight the connections between the solid wood surfaces. The oblong hole on each side makes Tabouret very easy to handle.
Made in natural-coloured solid chestnut wood.
LC14 02 Tabouret stool Maison du Brésil
Designed by Le Corbusier in 1959 for the Maison du Brésil at the Cité International Universitaire de Paris. The oblong openings on the two main sides make it easy to move the stool, which can be positioned either horizontally or vertically. The exclusive system of dovetail joints on the corners shows off the precision and skill of Cassina in working solid wood.

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LC17 Portemanteau

Brand: Cassina

Unité de Camping Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
A coat stand in oak with matte black back and solid oak knobs in matte white, black, red, green and blue.
Le Corbusier developed the Portemanteau project for the fi rst time for the Cabanon. This re-edition is the 1957 model designed for the Unités de Camping. In harmony with the many colours of these minimal spaces, which feature all the commodities of a cruise cabin, even the coat rack is coloured. Elements in solid oak resembling mushrooms in matte white, black, red, green and blue are placed at diff erent heights, based upon Modulor visual measures, on an oak panel in matte black.

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Le Corbusier

The products of this designer

LC15

LC14 Tabouret Nantes Rezé

LC14 Tabourets

LC17 Portemanteau

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