It was planned and built 1960-65.
You can observe in images to the right:
heating tube in red
monumental concrete staircase
grid system on ceiling, one meter squares
stripped down functional esthetic
'Le Corbusier colors:' red, green, black, white
The display labels explain:
"After moving to Paris in 1917, Le Corbusier published with his painter friend Amedee Ozenfant the manifesto Apres le Cubisme (After Cubism), calling for a 'Purist' mode of thought and practice. In his work as an architect, he soon launched a relentless crusade against traditional decorative arts and any form of extraneous ornament..."
Le Brassai's famous photograph, below, shows Le Corbusier's apartment in Paris' Latin Quarter circa 1931. Pictures, objects, and furniture intertwine to form an assemblage that is difficult to unravel. The Purist ideal of emptiness has given way here to domestic surroundings shaped by the inhabitant's biography, as the 'objets-types' become witness to an exuberant search for new forms of expression. Paintings by naive artists, as well as objects on the mantelpiece, reveal a newly awakened interest in the vernacular, the natural, and the ancient that would shape Le Corbusier's art and architecture after 1928."
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