Le Corbusier Furnitures

Le Corbusier

In 1920 Charles-Eduard Jeanneret adopted the name of a forebear as a pseudonym that was to become famous. That same year marked the founding of the Revue de L’Esprit Nouveau in Paris and the name of the painter Amédé Ozenfant was published along with that of Le Corbusier who would soon become the most influential architect of the twentieth century.
Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland.
His father was an engraver and his mother a musician. He was admitted to the Ecole d’Art in Chaux-de-Fonds and later took advanced courses in decoration.
He began his career in the studio of the architect Perret and built his first house when he was only eighteen. A person imbued with self-confidence and advanced ideas he developed revolutionary town planning projects and left a precise imprint on building construction that is still evident today.
His main works include Ozenfant’s House-Atelier, the residential complex in Marseille and the chapel at Ronchamp.
The main core of his ideas was the multi-purpose building with overlapping
units for working class homes.
One of his innovations was the use of a frame that was totally independent of the base. This was characterized by the use of “Pilotis” that support the structure, permitting the use of windows in strips for total lighting and freely articulated façades. Examples from this period are the Weissenhof district in Stuttgart and the Villa Savoye in Poissy.
The nineteen-forties marked the beginning of the “organic” period: Le Corbusier developed the “Modulor” as a dimensional unit based on the human body. He applied this method to the Jaoul house in Neuilley-sur-Seine and the Sarabhai house in India.
He was also interested in furniture design and as in architecture he realized that there was indeed a need for new concepts starting from the production methods.
Le Corbusier died by drowning off the French coast of the Mediterranean in 1965.