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#75 Collaboration between the Fondation Le Corbusier and the Archives Charlotte Perriand has led to the exhibition “La luce” – old projects and new replicas. #salone2015

“La luce”, vista dell'allestimento, Nemo
The show is small in scale but high in quality, located at the end of a short stretch of Corso Monforte that brings together the four major lighting companies of Luceplan, Flos, Artemide and Nemo.
For the first time ever, Nemo has brought together the lighting projects of Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier, who were pioneers in the world of illumination. The contributions of the Fondation Le Corbusier and the Archives Charlotte Perriand (with which institutions Nemo has been working for the past five years) were fundamental to this display of sketches and studies of lighting. The material on display has never left the archives in Paris, nor yet been seen publicly.
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“La luce”, view of exhibition, Nemo

Andrea Castelli, Valentina Folli and Margherita Paleari of the UNA collective were the curators, artistic directors and display designers of the exhibition. They opted for a chronological approach divided over two floors to recount the origins of projects by Perriand and Le Corbusier, who worked on lighting as an architectural symbol that not did not only have a practical function.

Le Corbusier’s notes and drawings of the development of several of his most famous and innovative lamps such as the Lampe de Marseille; Perriand's original sketches that helped her to define and choose the materials for the Applique à Volet and the Potence Pivotante (1938); archive photographs portraying the two creators at work – all show the conceptual and constructional phases of a number of modern design classics.

Roche, Le Corbusier, Nemo
Roche, Le Corbusier, Nemo

Two designs are being reproduced by Nemo. La Roche (1925) was Le Corbusier’s first purist-style lamp. It was presented at the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau as a wall lamp built from off-the-shelf components and adapted to suit his needs as an architect. It was used in several buildings, including Villa La Roche in Paris, where the Fondation is currently housed.

Rio (1963) is a large floor lamp, designed by Perriand during a trip to Brazil. The metal rod structure carries two lanterns made of synthetic fabric. It was inspired by a candomblé evening she attended in the state of Bahia – its points resemble a devil’s horns.

 

“La luce”, view of exhibition, Nemo
“La luce”, view of exhibition, Nemo

fino al 10 maggio 2015
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corso Monforte, 19 Milano

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