Couleurs Inoxydables at Villa Savoye

From February 12 on, Villa Savoye will transform from a singular home to a surprising cohabitation, in the guise of celebrating the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death. An icon of modernity, Villa Savoye hosts a unique exhibition with design objects in full colour. The exhibition “Couleurs inoxydables” (Stainless colours) was mounted as a collaboration between the designer Frédéric Gaunet and the famous metal furniture brand TOLIX.

“A colourful collaboration that showcases furniture with a timeless design, an architectural monument of our heritage and a designer for a long time with us. Three elements that once combined form a set that has the taste and strength with these exclusive colors! We would not have missed it!” – TOLIX

 “Presented at the last show of the Milan design, comic iconic furniture pieces for Tolix, seemed to me essential to don the colors of the significant work of Le Corbusier, link and complementarity of ancestral knowledge of the brand. In this place steeped in modernity, they challenge their resonances.” – Frédéric Gaunet

The choice of this collaboration is not a random one. Indeed, TOLIX is known as the only firm to own the rights to Le Corbusier’s colour editions. Frédéric Gaunet constantly pushes the limits of industrial design. For this reason, their collaboration is surprising but also obvious – allows to fill the empty rooms of the Villa Savoye with furniture. It is important to understand that the aim is not to furnish, decorate or exercise historical reconstruction but to engage heritage, contemporary design, furniture and architecture, in order to raise awareness of the work and principles theorized by Le Corbusier.

“Couleurs inoxydables” (Stainless colors) at the Villa Savoye will be held February 12 to April 20, 2015.