Le Corbusier and Chandigarh

 

 Vihan Sabha

 High Court

 High Court

 High Court

 Secretariat Building

 Vihan Sabha

Main central plaza

On researching the next adventure to India we came across these incredible buildings by French (born Swiss) Architect and urban planner, Le Corbusier in Chandigarh. So Chandigarh was an experimental city built in India in the 1950s and is the biggest and most significant example of urban planning executed by Le Corbusier.Looks amazing and can't wait to pay it a visit, wonder if they have any Government guest houses to stay in!

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Industrial beauty Jean Prouvé..

                          

Biography:
Jean Prouve (1901-1984): French Industrial- and Furniture Designer and Architect. Jean Prouve is one of the most influential furniture designers of the early modern design movement, Jean Prouve introduced the machine age and industrial engineered modern design aesthetic to interiors in the steel, aluminum and architecture he created. He then continued her experiments with different materials.

Jean Prouve was both engineer and modern designer.
Jean Prouve was once quoted saying: never design anything that cannot be made.

Jean Prouve was born into an artistic family in Nancy, France; his famous father, Victor Prouve, collaborated with the great Art Nouveau artists Emile Galle and Louis Majorelle as a ceramicist. Jean Prouve himself was trained as a metal smith before attending engineering school in Nancy, and his intimate knowledge of metal remained the foundation of his work and career. After opening his own workshop in 1923, Jean Prouve began producing modern metal furniture of his own design as well as collaborating with some of the best-known French modern designers of the day, including Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. His shelving units for the dormitories at the Cite internationale universitaire de Paris, designed with Perriand and the artist Sonia Delaunay in 1952, are perhaps the best-known examples of his collaborative work.

Jean Prouve always regarded himself as more of an engineer and constructor instead of a modern designer. He never designed for the sake of form alone, concentrating instead on the essence of materials, connections and production. Jean Prouve strove for the most constructionally and materially efficient designs, with such classic end results as the modern design Standard chair of 1934 and the Antony chair of 1954. Utilizing his innovative method of folding sheet metal, Jean Prouve designed a series of tables that have the perceived lightness of bridges and the presence of architecture. In the mid 1950s, Jean Prouve was forced to abandon modern design furniture production and began devoting his time to the challenges of prefabricated architecture. His own house, which he designed as a prototype, is now considered a major development in prefab housing.

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Easter in France

The beautiful faded colours of southern France.. Launguedoc

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A bit of Bohemian Style

We love: these Bohemian Interiors we found, couldn't be more Antiques and Boutiques style if they tried! Another reason to head up to France and  discover a new vide-grenier on the weekend, we are always on the look out for interesting pieces for our homes and  styling projects!

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17th Century Inspiration

We Love: These  inspiring abstract paintings. Though they have been compared to more modern works from artists such as Paul Klee and Kazimir Malevich they are in fact works created by  Hindu tantra divotees from various northern Indian cities, and are a pictoral tradition dating back to 1600.

The art works, painted on salvaged paper a foot high, enchanted  French poet Franck Andre Jamme , who spent years tracking them down across the deserts of Rajasthan befriending tantrikas in order to  understand their meditative art form.

The works were exhibited in Paris in 1994 where Jamme wrote:

“Perhaps rarely in the universal history of painting have works at once so mysterious and simple, yet so powerful and pure, ever been produced — a bit as if, here, man’s genius had been able to assemble almost everything in almost nothing.”

They have now come into print in “Tantra Song” (Sigolo)


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Artist Inspiration

We love: These paintings by French artist Jean-Michel Aucler, his work is described as 'the true reflection of a dreamer, who never stops conjuring tricks with paintings, colour and shapes'.


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