One of the most important early modernists, French furniture designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was a member of Le Corbusier’s studio. This exhibition, opening soon at the Petit Palais, emphasises the importance of photography in her work; both for her preliminary studies, it provided her with inspiration for her experiments with forms, materials and spatial arrangements, [...] [...]
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Haussmann this, Haussmann that… If you want to see what Paris looked like before 1850, when Napoleon III and his famous prefect replaced 120,000 squalid flats with 320,000 spanking new apartments, and installed 200 kilometres of new roads, plus pavements and urban furniture including water fountains and street lights, 600,000 trees, 600 kilometres of new [...] [...] Editor-in-chief of weighty local fashion quarterly Citizen K, Frédéric Chaubin has been publishing his own photos of what he calls the ‘fourth age of Soviet architecture’ for a decade. Taschen is publishing 90 of these pictures in a new monograph that reveals an unexpected rebirth of imagination in architecture in the former URSS, [...] [...] |
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