Armchair with reclining seatback Bauhaus

Charles-Edouard Janneret-Gris “Le Corbusier”
(6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965)

He was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
Founder of the “Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture moderne”, he joined architecture with social needs of the avarage man, revealed himself as a great mind of his time.
At 13 years old, he started attending the “Art Décoratifs” school, where he studied the art of enamelling, and ended up under the attention of “L’Eplattenier”, who became his master.
He continues his studies in art and decoration, with the dream of becoming a painter.
His master invited him also to study architecture and helped him to obtain his first assignment in some local projects.
“Le Corbusier” embarked on several journeys  around Central and Southern Europe, that allowed him to learn from the greatest artists such as “Auguste Perret” or “Peter Behrens”.
in 1917 he moved in Paris and started a collaboration with the painter Amédée Ozenfant. It was in this period that the nickname  "Le Corbusier" was invented under suggestion of his mentor Ozenfant, who advised him to inspire to his mothers surname, so he chosed his great-grandfathers name “Le Corbusiers”.
Besides being a great architect, his design work completely changed the perspective on furniture and accessories construction.
He embodied a revolutionary in modernity, with his dreams and bravery he realized some works that could only be fantasies in  common people minds.
He identified himself to the people, focussing every construction and every idea for the avarage man.
Eclectic, innovator and passionate seeker of all kind of art, Le Corbusier  finds his strength in the concept of arts  synesthesia, i.e. in architecture integrations, internal design , furniture design and chromatic harmony.
"Charles Le Corbusier" was  Not only a rivolutionary in the architecture world but also invented  furnitures strongly charcterized by an alternative design, wich full entered in the occidental culture, and are requested to this days.