Original
Hall 2 - 53
Staircase from the Unité d’Habitation
Designer
Le Corbusier & Jean Prouvé
Location
France
Information
This staircase comes from the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille known as “a machine for living in”. The railing was designed by Le Corbusier, the stairs by Jean Prouvé. The staircase was made between 1962 and 1968 from wood and lacquered metal.
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INFORMATION
Interior of a housing unit, Unité d’Habitation Marseille – Le Corbusier and Prouvé’s staircase can be seen on the right.
INFORMATION
Unité d’Habitation – between 1947 and 1965, Le Corbusier built a new type of public housing in France and Berlin.
About the
Designer
INFORMATION
Jean Prouvé combined technology and design like no other. His furniture and buildings look like precise machines – functional, light and clearly constructed. As a designer with creative sensitivity, he developed a modern design language that was conceived from the material itself.
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