Commissioned by artist Hélène de Mandrot as a seaside holiday home, the registered historic monument is crafted from stone, ...
Opened in 1955, the Catholic chapel offered a new direction in Modernist design.
A new photography exhibition focuses on the work of Lucien Hervé, Corbu’s official photog for more than 15 years. Modern architecture was forged in concrete, glass, and film. Early modernist ...
In his buildings, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier used color to define and articulate space. Now, a new tile line by the Italian manufacturer Gigacer is making it easier for designers–and design fans ...
For the first time since its inception over a half-century ago, and after an extensive renovation, Le Corbusier's Pavilion—a museum designed by him, exhibiting works by him as well—has been completed ...
NEW YORK — It’s easy to imagine that “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes,” a vast, dense and beautifully installed new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, began as a kind of parlor game.
What do an Ikea showroom floor, urban housing projects and Kanye West have in common? They've all been inspired, at least to some degree, by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier. Though his ...
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts announced a significant donation of 119 artworks from San Francisco-based gallerist and collector Martin Muller. There was also the painful Iranian question in the ...
Photographer Roberto Conte uncovers the hidden gems of Chandigarh’s concrete infrastructure in his new series exploring the Le Corbusier-designed Indian city. The images capture the modernist ...
Le Corbusier famously told her, “We don’t embroider cushions here,” when she sought a job at his studio. Then he recognized her talent for design.
Sardinian artist Cristian Chironi’s plans for the coming years include living in some 30 homes in 12 countries, but to call him a nomad would not be entirely accurate. His wandering is part of a ...
A HOUSE IS NOT A MACHINE to live in," wrote the pioneering modernist Eileen Gray in response to Le Corbusier's oft-quoted line about a house being a machine á habiter. "It is the shell of man—his ...