Corbusier-Inspired Chaise Bathtub by Omvivo
Dec 12th, 2014 by Aldouspi

corbusier-inspired chaise bathtub le cob bath by omvivo

corbusier-inspired chaise bathtub le cob bath by omvivo

Design by Omvivo

 

Seen here is a stunning Le Corbusier-inspired ‘chaise lounge’ bathtub by Omvivo. Le Cob Bath holds significantly less water than a conventional bath and can be used in a similar way to the traditional Japanese soaker bath. The cascading overflow into the pebbles below is simply elegant. For more information visit Omvivo.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who was better known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America. [source]

 

 

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More Thoughts on Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier’s Furniture is a classic furniture line created by Le Corbusier. The line was introduced in 1928 at the Salon d‘Autumne in Paris by Le Corbusier and his team of designers.

Le Corbusier began experimenting with furniture design in 1928 after inviting the architect, Charlotte Perriand, to join his studio. His cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, also collaborated on many of the designs. Before the arrival of Perriand, Le Corbusier relied on ready made furniture to furnish his projects, such as the simple pieces manufactured by Thonet, the company that manufactured his designs in the 1930s.


Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, the work of Leone Battista Alberti, and other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture. The system is based on human measurements, the double unit, the Fibonacci numbers, and the golden ratio. Le Corbusier described it as a “range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things”.


In 1960, Le Corbusier was mandated by Heidi Weber, a Swiss art collector and patron, to conceive a public exhibition building – a museum dedicated to his won works. One year later, the first drawings for a building to be constructed in concrete were presented. Then in 1962, the concept was changed to a steel building. Two years later the construction was started, in 1965 Le Corbusier died, and on July 15, 1967, the Centre Le Corbusier was officially inaugurated.

The Centre Le Corbusier can be considered a Gesamtkunstwerk, i.e. a total work of art, and reflects the harmonic unity of Le Corbusier’s architecture, sculptures, paintings, furniture designs and his writings which is unique and possibly the only one such existing structure in the world.


==> For more information about Le Corbusier, check out this link: Artsy’s Le Corbusier page.


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