Do Geral ao Particular e do Particular ao Geral: considerações sobre o mobiliário na fase purista de Le Corbusier

Abstract

In the 1920s, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, found a formulation for the modern environment, suited to the Machine Age and its New Spirit. From the interior of the home to the metropolis, the conception followed the ideas of Purism, created with the painter Amédée Ozenfant. The modern environment would be the result of a purification and concentration, that encompassed the Major and Minor Arts in the so called “Synthesis of the Arts”. The paper discusses the relationship between Architecture and Furniture in this decade. Corbusier typified the furniture, organized under the concept of equipment, articulating them with the house and the city. This new furniture, found on the market or designed by his office, would be arranged according to very particular strategies. Opposing the typification, there appears the mixture and displacement of procedures between Furniture and Architecture, including an expression between very different built scales.