In 1917, he moved to Paris. Since he only had a few architectural commissions at the time, he spent much of his time painting, producing mainly still lifes.

In 1919, Le Corbusier joined the painter Amédée Ozenfant and the poet Paul Dermée to found the journal “L’Esprit Nouveau”, in which he first began using his pseudonym in 1920.

In 1922, Le Corbusier produced an urban planning concept for a Ville Contemporaine – a “contemporary city with a population of three million”. In 1925, he collaborated with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret on designing a two-storied pavilion for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The avant-garde architecture of that pavilion was complemented by furnishings of functional design and paintings by Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz and others.

Around 1942, he formulated his “Modulor” theory, which was Le Corbusier’s term for a system of proportion based on the Golden Mean that he used in his architectural designs, especially in his large-scale urban planning projects. Intended to facilitate architecture on a human scale based on an objective system, the Modular still remains one of the most controversial of Le Corbusier’s theoretical approaches to architecture.

Le Corbusier also made substantial contributions to architecture theory as a co-founder of the Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), which first convened in 1928. In 1952, the first Unité d’Habitation was finished in Marseilles, followed by further modular residential units in other locations. Le Corbusier designed the pilgrimage chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamps in 1955.

Le Corbusier died in 1965 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

Designer Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand
Year 1929
Sling chair with polished chrome plated or mat black enamel steel frame.
Seat and back:
- ponyskin or cowskin (black leather arms)
- Russian red leather (matching arms)
- black leather (matching arms).
Size: 25.25h x 23.5w x 25.5"l