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Le Corbusier Furniture combine a passion for classical Greek architecture and an attraction to the modern machine.

Le Corbusier 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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In this spirit, Le Corbusier co-designed a system of furniture with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand.

The tubular steel furniture — like the famous chaise and Grand Confort chair — projected a new rationalist aesthetic that came to epitomize the International Style. Over the decades, Le Corbusier Furniture has included mass housing blocks, public buildings and individual villas, all conceived with what he called the "engineer's aesthetic."

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began his career in architecture in Berlin, working as an architect first in the studio of Bruno Paul and then, like Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, Peter Behrens.

In the mid-1920's, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began to create Classic Design Furniture, pieces that he conceived and created for particular interiors. Bauhaus Armchairs: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Charles Eames...

In 1927, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe met Lilly Reich, a Bauhaus alumnus who collaborated with Mies on his first versions of a cantilevered chair with a tubular steel frame. The cantilevered chair had a curved frame that exploited the aesthetic, as well as the structural possibilities of this material.

Two years later, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich designed what is perhaps his most famous creation. Created for the German Pavilion at the Barcelona International Exhibition, the Pavilion chair (Barcelona Chair and Barcelona Ottomann) was intended as a modern throne; a thick cushion upholstered in luxurious leather and set upon a curved metal frame in the shape of an X inspired by classical design furniture.