Nearly 50 years have passed since his death, but Le Corbusier can still make waves in the design world.
Corbu has become the talk of the Design Miami showrooms. Not only has a 1:1 model of Le Corbusier's 1952 seaside villa, the Cabanon, been one of the most popular exhibits at the show (by Italian furniture company Poltrona Frau and the Le Corbusier Foundation), but another Corbu exhibit has also been one of the most hotly-contested.
Event-goers have cried foul at the Galerie Patrick Seguin, a gallery that sold chairs, tables, and sofas from Corbu's government complex in Chandigarh (the Indian city Corbu helped design and plan) as part of its exhibition. While the gallery claims all the furniture (designed by Corbu and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) had been neglected in India and now rescued, scholars are less than pleased that the furniture pieces have been removed from their intended buildings at all. As one scholar, Jean-Louis Cohen, an architectural historian and a curator for MOMA, told Architecture Record, "I'm revolted."
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