LE CORBUSIER POLYCHROMIE ARCHITECTURALE

Le Corbusier designed two color collections for the Salubra wallpaper company: the Clavier de couleurs of 1931, with 43 colors, an d the 1959 collection, with 20. Not content with the mere color selection, drawn from his experience as an architect and painter, he also organized the tones on 12 sample cards in such a manner that, by using a slider, three or five colors could be varyingly isola ted or combined. Each card contained a different color scheme meant, when applied, to create a particular spatial effect. This would become no...[Read more]