Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier was born Charles Edouard Jeannerct on October 6, 1887, in LaChaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He was the second son of Edouard Jeanneret, a dial painter in the town's renowned watch industry, and Madame Jeannerct-Perrct, a musician and piano teacher. In 1900, he began is art education at the La Chaux de Fonds and moved onto study architecture with Auguste Perret in Paris in the 1920s. He applied his love for classical Greek architecture and an attraction to the modern machine to create some of the most classic pieces of furniture to date. He published his ideas in a book entitled, Vers une Architecture, in which he refers to the house as a "machine for living," an industrial product that should include functional furniture or "equipment de l'habitation."

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