Le Corbusier France

Formafantasma, YOY, Thukral & Tagra and Tej Chauhan have collaborated with Rado to create wristwatches that equally celebrate the future and tradition.

Signs of the time

by Nina C. Müller | 1/19/2021

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Nemo was founded together with Cassina. In two steps the luminaire brand was then acquired by entrepreneur Federico Palazzari. In conversation with Thomas Edelmann he talks about the proven approaches and pragmatic experiments.

MAGAZIN // ISH 2017

Bye-bye to plain vanilla

by Thomas Edelmann | 3/22/2017

Get rid of those old bulky things and bring in new design radiators – for example colorful ones with a matt finish or specially backlit.

Marco Zanuso was born 100 years ago. The Milanese architect is one of the inventors of post-1945 Italian design and for decades inspired other architects and designers.

Not only Grillo had a future

by Thomas Edelmann | 5/17/2016

Salone 3: Forget social issues. The trend in furniture is to give modern classics a contemporary tweak, a makeover that guarantees their timelessness.

Modern always works

4/28/2016

Product Design students of École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne had a go at outfitting “Appartement 50” in Marseille’s “Cité Radieuse”. The result is an homage to Le Corbusier that uses plenty of color and adaptable furniture.

Out on the roof, too

by Martina Metzner | 7/15/2015

Jaime Hayon showcases a “Réaction Poétique” at Cassina

Surreal idols

4/1/2015

Le Corbusier, not to mention Joan Mirò and other artists are secretly along for the ride when Jaime Hayon ironically evokes the spirit of Surrealism.

A fun-loving uncle resides in the French pavilion. He’s called Hulot, was invented by Jacques Tati, and shows in an amusing way all the things that can go wrong in the world of Modernism.

Modernism and its uncle

6/17/2014

Can a show about Thonet bring any new insights? The Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig is hosting “Sit, Recline, Rock – Thonet Furniture” thru’ September 14, highlighting what chapters there are still to be discovered in the “Thonet saga”.

Thonetology

by Thomas Edelmann | 5/4/2014

Milan in the days of the Salone and Fuori Salone – is a hodgepodge of impressions, encounters and cameo stories. In terms of form and content, they are as different as, say, people, furniture, brands, and markets.

Salone, Salone or Twelve Milan stories

4/16/2014

In Paris it stood in Master Corbu’s living room and is a typical design of the team of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. And now Cassina is re-issuing the LC5 sofa in its “I Maestri Collection”.

Cassina re-issues LC5

3/26/2014

With “7 Studies”, gallerist and furniture maker Jörg Schellmann is showing in Munich how seven renowned artists and designers, among them Stefan Diez, Liam Gillick and Donald Judd, are furnishing workspaces. And that they are not all that far from the Renaissance studiolo.

The longing for a studiolo

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 7/17/2013

You need courage and massive design punch to skillfully combine Punk music and Le Corbusier. Thanks to Konstantin Grcic this summer both join forces in Marseille.

Marseille, Corbu, Grcic and the Sex Pistols

by Esther Schulze-Tsatsas | 7/1/2013

Lounging and dreaming in the big outdoors, preferably on huge sofas and comfy daybeds, into which we lightly sink and forget the everyday rat race.

Twelve dreams under the big blue sky

5/8/2013

It is a well-known fact that Le Corbusier did more than just design buildings, he also furnished them, in fact went so far as to purpose-create furniture for them. Arthur Rüegg has spent years examining these designs by the French architect. Now his book “Le Corbusier. Furniture and interiors 1905-1965” has made it into bookstores.

Le Corbusier’s furniture and interiors

9/12/2012

Ernst Scheidegger's photos of the Indian city of Chandigarh document the reality of a utopia being built. More than 50 years later and previously unpublished, the photos are now appearing for the first time in an illustrated book.

Back when Chandigarh was being built

by Sandra Hofmeister | 10/7/2010

In 1952, Le Corbusier put his concept of a minimal living module on the Côte d'Azur into practice. He built the "cabanon" in the immediate vicinity of Eileen Gray's Villa E1027; it was a tiny structure that barely measures 15 square meters.

Garden Shed à la Le Corbusier

by Bokern Anneke | 4/4/2009