Le Corbusier
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Stimulating, reflective, evocative… This collection is as much a homage to the world-renowned Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) as it is a celebration of his unique vision. Architect, urban planner, painter, writer, designer, theorist… Le Corbusier was well ahead of his time across many domains. Indeed, his revolutionary views on life and living continue to influence contemporary architecture today, nearly 100 years on. The adjacent photo captures this innovative spirit beautifully. The house and car depicted appear to originate from altogether different historical periods....

LE CORBUSIER Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known by his pseudonym “Le Corbusier” (1887-1965), was a SwissFrench architect, artist and designer and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modernism. Well ahead of his time, he is without a doubt one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. He conceived homes and their functionality from the point of view of the needs of both their inhabitants and their surroundings, an approach previously unheard of at the time. Indeed, Le Corbusier’s work and ideas changed the face of architecture and the buildings drawn by his...

FURNITURE DESIGN Purism was a movement founded by Le Corbusier together with artist and friend, Amédée Ozenfant. It was largely intended as a reaction to cubism, which Le Corbusier found overly decorative, and as an expression of the desire to return to the essential through the use of clearly ordered forms, simple colours and an absence of ornamentation. Le Corbusier’s revitalising approach did not stop at the building but extended to the furniture it contains. This is why Le Corbusier developed a furniture collection in the same spirit as his buildings, he referred to his furniture as...

The impressive colours of this collection originate from Le Corbusier‘s unique ‘Polychromie architecturale’ - an inimitable colour system and a masterwork. In view of the numerous natural colours, we decided to make a selection. On the opposite page you can see the colour stripe with all the harmonious Le Corbusier colours and the colours we selected. Each colour has its own specific characteristics and is accompanied by a short description. Le Corbusier‘s ‘polychromie architecturalE’ Les Couleurs Suisse AG holds the worldwide mandate and the exclusive rights from La Fondation Le Corbusier...

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PAVILION Le Corbusier is most renowned for his purist, modernist architecture. And yet, the strict, minimalist forms associated with the movement were far from sacred for him. In his artworks, for example, we find a range of more organic forms and warm colours. Moreover, we know that this more organic approach also began to show in his architecture from the 1950s, most likely inspired by Le Corbusier’s many travels. An example of this “warmer” and more organic approach can be found in his chapel Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. Chapel Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. Built in 1954, this...

The decorative element of architectural drawing. 11/7 A wireframe of the Philips Pavilion’s tent structure inspired us to create a similar pattern in paper.

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UNITY Le Corbusier is attributed with the claim that a window is not meant to let in air but light. In fact, he is responsible for the invention of several new window systems that enabled the maximum infiltration of light into buildings. Windows, for Le Corbusier, are “perforations” in the façade of a building, perforations that also strongly influence the look of a building. It is this perforation that we have raised to the level of motif in this wallcovering. Not the window as such but rather the rhythm in which windows define the exterior façade – in this case those of l’Unité...

The perforated wood which Le Corbusier often integrated in his collages. The warmth of his purist paintings and the texture of his workshop define the tonality and texture of the wallcovering.

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STONE During his early years, Le Corbusier spent time working with Auguste Perret. Perret was an architect and pioneer in the field of reinforced concrete. The knowledge that Le Corbusier acquired during those years played a major role in his later career. The use of reinforced concrete can almost be regarded as a constant in Le Corbusier’s buildings. Le Corbusier often played with the typical texture of concrete, created by the wooden planks of the formwork. However, he would often use concrete as a canvas for other patterns and illustrations as well, lending an otherwise cold and bleak...

Wooden table from Le Corbusier. Illustrating his love for natural materials and textures. The replica marble structure as supplied to Salubra by Le Corbusier. Photomural of natural materials made by Le Corbusier. First tests with a simulated concrete structure.

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DOTS Le Corbusier was commissioned by the wallpaper factory Salubra S.A. to design a wallpaper collection back in 1931, which resulted in Salubra I. One of the wallpaper designs consisted of a dot pattern in two dot sizes, each in nine colours. This dot pattern was inspired by the cardboard material with tiny perforations which Le Corbusier often used as a base for his drawings and collages. With this composition, we have recreated the Le Corbusier design with new innovative printing techniques in line with Le Corbusier’s own progressive spirit. The dot pattern, for example, is not made...