Le Corbusier

A Swiss architect (1887-1965), Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, completed his training while traveling in Italy, near Florence, and in Paris, where he worked with the Brothers Perret. He created his first furniture in 1912, for his parents' house in La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1915, he invented the Maison domino, designed from a standard module. At the age of thirty, at the beginning of 1917, he settled permanently in Paris.

With Amédée Ozenfant and Paul Dermée in 1919, he founded the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau , in which he defended his theses and opened his stands to other movements, De Stijl, the Bauhaus and even the Russian constructivists. In 1921, he published the manifesto of purism, signed Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, entitled After Cubism . In 1922, with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, he opened his studio in the rue de Sèvres. In decorative art today in 1925, he spells out the terms "living machines", "home furnishings" and "resting machines", which are supposed to replace respectively the house, the decoration and the seat.

Standard boxes, juxtaposable and stackable elements, made of a half-cube made of wood, appear in the pavilion of the New Spirit at the Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts of 1925. It examines the prefabrication and Production and mass production of building elements, and reflects on town planning. He admires the structural beauty of the automobile and steamers. At the Salon d'Automne in 1929, he presented the interior equipment of a dwelling. Almost all the furniture is made in collaboration with Charlotte Perriand. The comfortable armchair is made in 1928; The chaise longue with continuous adjustment, the same year, with a bearing structure; Another chaise longue model, a rotating chair and an airplane tube table date from 1929. Le Corbusier has established a proportional system based on the golden number, the Modulor, which finds its application in architecture and the furniture.