Le Corbusier

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret rechristened himself Le Corbusier in 1920 at the time he started his journal L'Esprit Nouveau. An active member of the Parisian art scene, he championed a minimalist modernism espousing the home as a ‘machine for living’. In 1923 he published his book Towards a New Architecture, followed in 1926 by Five Points of a New Architecture. In 1928 he began creating furnishings for his buildings in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. The furniture, entitled as a group ‘Equipment for Living’, featured the model 7 Fauteuil Tournant, the model 1 Fauteuil a Dossier Basculant and the model 4 Chaise Longue. Thonet originally manufactured these pieces and many have now been reissued by Cassina. The trio also designed the Grand Confort range, a plump, upholstered answer to the lean art deco shapes of the other series.

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