Le Corbusier

Designer of Bauhaus and Modern Classic Design Furniture

In 1900 Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris began to study at the École d'Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He trained as an engraver and goldsmith but, from 1904, also studied architecture. He made history as one of the leading 20th-century architects. The foundations of Le Corbusier's aesthetic were laid on his extensive travels and the work he did at leading architecture practices, including work for the distinguished German architect Peter Behrens in Berlin in 1910-11. Le Corbusier concentrated on building with steel and reinforced concrete.

In 1917 he moved to Paris and assumed the nom d'artiste Le Corbusier. In 'L'Esprit Nouveau', the journal he founded in 1919, Le Corbusier formulated his ideas of modern architecture. His painting, emphasising clear forms and structures, corresponds to his architecture, which is based on elemental geometric forms.
In 1943 Le Corbusier applied a similar interdisciplinary approach to developing 'Modulor', a system of proportion based on the male figure and the Golden Mean, used to determine the proportions of units in architecture and technology. It is also the basis of Le Corbusier's work in furniture design. Many of his pieces of furniture have become design classics. In addition to individual buildings - such as the Weißenhof Settllement in Stuttgart (1927) and Villa Savoye in Poissy (1929-31) - Le Corbusier was interested in mass-produced urban housing and town planning. He disseminated his ideas in a host of theoretical writings on architecture as well as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne and the Athens Charter, published in 1944, in which Le Corbusier laid out guidelines for urban planning. One of Le Corbusier's most important postwar housing complexes is Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and his pilgrimage chapel, Notre-Dame-du-Haut, in Ronchamps is perhaps his most radical work. One of the most important and influential architects of the 20th century, Le Corbusier died on 27 August 1965.

Among his most famous Bauhaus or design furniture layouts are the basculant easy chair LC1, the revolving stool LC8, the revolving chair LC7, the coffee table LC10, the dining table LC10, the dining table or also the office desk LC6.

Today, the world-famous classics, like the LC2 armchair, the LC3 armchair, the sofas LC2 or LC3 and the grand comfort armchair do not let you think in another way. His design of the LC4 lounger is one of the world´s most reproduced design objects.

Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand is next to Charles Eames, Mies van der Rohe, Eileen Gray, Arne Jacobsen, Marcel Breuer certainly one of the most famous Bauhaus architects and designers of the Bauhaus era. His design projects can be found today both in the private sector as well as in the exclusive back office facilities.