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Berluti delivers colour and care to revive Pierre Jeanneret’s Chandigarh furniture
For this year’s Design Miami, Kris Van Assche partners with François Laffanour to present a collection of Pierre Jeanneret furniture pieces
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Le Corbusier exhibition, Liverpool
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Make yourself at home with the works of Charlotte Perriand at Foundation Louis Vuitton
See the full shoot in our October 2019 issue (W*247), on newsstands now
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Frieze Art Fair London 2015: the Wallpaper* edit
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Surreal perspectives of architecture align in a duet of London exhibitions
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Le Corbusier, remembered: Paris celebrates an icon of modernism with a trio of exhibitions
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Designer Sophie Goineau refreshes midcentury Beverly Hills home
Interior designer Sophie Goineau leads the redesign of Cove Way, the restoration of a midcentury modernist house in Beverly Hills
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Greek modernism and more celebrated during inaugural Athens Design Forum
The inaugural Athens Design Forum invites visitors inside one of the works of Greek modernist Aristomenis Provelengios – the current home of architect Dionisis Sotovikis
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Daniel Buren takes over the rooftop of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse with ’Défini, fini, infini’
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Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi on modernism, India and dropping your ego
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Learning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands
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Eileen Gray’s E-1027 launches crowdfunding campaign for restoration of original interiors
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The hidden Le Corbusier connection in Peter Doig’s landmark painting
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Apartment N°50 in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse gets a makeover courtesy of ÉCAL
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Le Corbusier's furniture from Chandigarh
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Le Corbusier’s apartment in Paris opens to public after reconstruction
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Charlotte Perriand: Photography to interior design
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Made by hand: Jacob Brillhart dissects the early travel sketches of Le Corbusier
From buildings to urban planning to furniture, there may not be a more influential figure in modern architecture and design than Le Corbusier. Yet the man born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887 never attended university and had no formal architectural training. What he did have, however, was a voracious mind, and mentors who encouraged him during his teens and early 20s to travel around Europe and Turkey and draw draw draw.
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Walter Maria Förderer’s 1960s European churches remain avant-garde today
In the 1960s, Walter Maria Förderer designed eight churches in Switzerland and Germany. Influenced by Le Corbusier, and even more so by the collages of Kurt Schwitters and Gothic architecture, Förderer designed cascades of concrete blocks and strange totemic objects that now form some of Europe’s most avant-garde religious buildings.
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A legacy of Bangladeshi architecture on show at the Dhaka Art Summit
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Melbourne apartments channel the spirit of Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut
Le Corbusier’s chapel, Notre Dame du Haut, inspires this Melbourne apartment complex by property developer Beulah International and Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors
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Best reissues: vintage design classics revitalised with brio
Explore vintage design reimagined for the future
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Carbon Fibre House: a Swiss home that draws on the history of prefabrication
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Apartment story: Sarah Entwistle's family effects at Le Corbusier's Paris abode
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Cassina revives Le Corbusier furniture
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Renaat Braem’s House, Antwerp
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Contemporary Chandigarh house balances minimalism and warmth
Residence 145 by Charged Voids is a new contemporary Chandigarh house
