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Design Hole (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
I received an email from the Shenzhen MJ Furniture Company today. They proudly sell, “Excellent Quality Reproductions from Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray and others. All Of Our Modern Classic Reproductions.” Reproductions? Errr.. I think they’re actually called knock-offs. The verb stealing comes to mind. These images come from their site. Am I missing [...]
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Ethos (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Following the tradition of Delacroix, Le Corbusier and Picasso, this Moleskine watercolour notebook will be ideal for capturing moments of inspiration in colour. What beauty calls these blank pages?
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Behind the Curtains (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
An undisputed icon of Danish design, Hans Wegner's Papa Chair stands out among throngs of re-editions and knockoffs. Papa is much more rare than say a Le Corbusier chaise or Barcelona chair. And when you find one, it's original. These aren't being turned out in China's factories like so many copies of Castiglioni's Arco lamp. For collectors of mid-modern, this...
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Blog Specials (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Le Corbusier Leather Sofa in Cherry - 7903-BKA reproduction of the 1929 design for Salon d’Automne, our LE CORBUSIER sofa collection offers all of the style and comfort of the original at a fraction of the cost. This chair will bring a touch of French modernism to any office. 7903 Features: Upholstered in black [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Charles Taylor in Dissent: Like many utopian visions that someone is crazy enough to attempt to realize, modernist architecture has always contained an element of fascism. It wasn’t just that a cuckoo notion like Le Corbusier’s “radiant city,” those celery...
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Advances in prefab home designSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 2 hours agoScale models, photos and architectural sketches range over the prefab work of modernist innovators like Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Jean Prouve in …
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Blog Specials (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Le Corbusier Leather Lounge Chair in Cherry - 7901-BKA reproduction of the 1929 design for Salon d’Automne, our LE CORBUSIER sofa collection offers all of the style and comfort of the original at a fraction of the cost. This chair will bring a touch of French modernism to any office. 7901 Features: Upholstered in [...]
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COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Reviewing Phaidon's latest tome, Le Corbusier Le Grand, is like being asked to review the Constitution. How do you take in something so all-encompassing, so sweeping in just a few sittings? And then, what do you say about it? Um, it's good? First of all, it's fitting that a book devoted to the grandfather of modern architecture should weigh in at a jaw-dropping twenty...
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storm from the east (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Phaidon's enormous Le Corbusier Le Grand is now dominating shelves...
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Le Corbusier is difficult to get a hold on. He’s still admired, even worshipped, in architectural circles, but practically forgotten everywhere else. He’s arguably had more of an influence on the form of the modern world than any other architect - you could even argue there was no modern world before Le Corbusier - but [...]
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MaisonBisson.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Eyeglasses certainly add something. At least that’s the suggestion of these ads. And, thinking of comparisons: Hitler vs. Chaplin. Found via mirage.studio.7, where they think Le Corbusier’s glasses are where it’s at.
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Conscientious (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Turns out the father of brutalism was an extremely interesting character .
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Le Corbusier's own idea of the perfect space seems curiously telling. Having spent a lifetime at the cutting edge of progress, expanding his reputation and designs to maximum scale, he found his ideal home in his cabanon - a spartan, one-roomed wooden hut on the Côte d'Azur, where he spent every summer from 1952 onwards....
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
An urbanist who lived in a fishing cottage, an iconoclast who invented the highrise, an architect who wanted to be a painter ... Steve Rose goes in search of the man who designed the 20th century.
