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‘life in the city of tomorrow’, a documentary by Marian Engel
[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] With his documentary about the Berlin Hansaviertel the young Berlin-based film-maker Marian Engler...
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Interior of Appartment 50 in Unité d’Habitation de Marseille by Ronan & Erwan...
Unité d’Habitation – people also call it ‘Living Machine’ – is the name of a residential housing design principle Le Corbusier developed in the 1940s. Five of them have been realised, four in France...
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Classics by Le Corbusier, Man Ray and Harvey Guzzini re-released by Nemo –...
The Italian manufacturer Nemo – Cassina Lighting has released re-editions of three contemporary table lamps designed between 1954 and 1973 by the three masters: Le Corbusier, Harvey Guzzini and Man...
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Furnishing the Future: Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret’s Chandigarh furniture
Having received the brief to plan and design a new state capital for the Punjab, Le Corbusier, true to form, delivered a striking urban entity that’s a veritable ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. A forthcoming...
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‘LC7 Outdoor’ chair by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand...
The Italian furniture manufacturer Cassina has released an outdoor version of the iconic ‘LC7′ swivel chair. Originally designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand in 1928, the...
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Milan 2012: ‘PROJECTEUR 365′ by Le Corbusier reissued by Nemo (IT)
Earlier last week, the Italian lighting brand Nemo has presented its new reinterpretation of Le Corbusier’s 1954 ‘PROJECTOUR 365′ lamp. Created in collaboration with the Le Corbusier Foundation, the...
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‘Nuage’ range by Charlotte Perriand reissued by Cassina (IT)
Tubular steel chairs, or perhaps aluminium and glass creations might indeed be the first designs that come to mind when thinking of Charlotte Perriand’s pioneering pieces. One of modernism’s most...
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Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, is an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that spans the entire range of Le Corbusier’s artistic output – as architect, interior designer,...
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‘La Maison au Bord de l’Eau’ by Charlotte Perriand (FR)
For Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, French fashion house Louis Vuitton has built ‘La Maison au Bord de l’Eau’, a compact modernist beach house by architect, designer, planner and photographer Charlotte...
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Le Corbusier Reloaded: LC2 at designfunktion
Angular, cubic, clear – and surprisingly comfortable: like no other piece of furniture, Le Corbusier’s chair LC2 represents the furniture design of early modernism. The manufacturer Cassina has now...
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