Wednesday 30 May 2012

Le Corbusier´s kitchen in Sweden

Yesterday, I had a chance to revisit the Röhsska Museum, Sweden´s renowned design museum in Gothenburg (Göteborg). Among the many objects you can see there, one of the most interesting is Le Corbusier´s kitchen from the famous Marseille 
Unité d´habitation building (1947- 1952). 


Le Corbusier´s kitchen at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg


With the Unité Le Corbusier introduced the world to raw concrete, which - regrettably - later led to the "beton brutalism" style, so prevalent all over the world. No doubt Le Corbusier - and Charlotte Perriand, who actually designed the kitchen - wanted to create better homes for ordinary people during the the housing crisis in France in the 
1920´s and after the World War II.  But, at least in hindsight, their idea about the home as a machine to live in is not very appealing. 


Unité d´habitation in Marseilles (image by wiki)

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