Floor, wall/ceiling, pendant and table lamps based on an extruded and tubular aluminium structure, connected with moulded polymer joints, with white or black painted finish. Thanks to the joints, enabling the profiles to house LED sources, one can rotate 360° in order to produce a directional direct or indirect lighting, screened by an opaline diffuser in polycarbonate. The floor version is designed as such to provide a virtual divider to ambiences, while the ceiling and wall versions allow the enlightenment of the ambience in a versatile and a comfortable way. LED sources are dimmable.
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura, in 1887; he died in France, at Cap Martin, on the French Côte d’Azur, in 1965.
Early in his career his work met with some resistance owing to its alleged «revolutionary» nature and the radical look it acquired from its «purist» experiments; in time , however, it won the recognition it deserved and it is still widely admired. His message is still being assimilated by an ever increasing number of people in the profession, but his far-out avant-garde attitudes should be interpreted with due consideration for the use of rational systems in his planning method, evidenced by extremely simple modules and formes based on the functional logic.
«Functionalism tending not so much to an exaltation of the mechanical function at the expense of the symbolic, as to the rejection of symbol that he now considers outmoded and insignificant and the restoration of the pratical function as a symbol of new values»(¹)
In his activities as town-planner, architect and designer, his method of research continued to develop, at times going to the opposite extremes of a rich plastic idiom.
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