One of the recent pioneers of the contemporary movement in architecture and furniture style in the 20th century, Le Corbusier (also identified by his true name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) is a Swiss-French modernist architect and furniture designer. Acknowledge by numerous to be the excellent modern stylist of all time, Le Corbusier created some of the most famous furnishings of the 20th century and still remains to inspire designers to this time.

Born on October 6, 1887 at the remarkable watch-making town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Le Corbusier first praised himself in the calling of architecture. When he was 18 years old Le Corbusier had already made a house on his own, and in 1910 was beginner to the famous German architect Peter Behrens. During his workings, Le Corbusier met and worked with associate Modern movement discoverer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. When his apprenticeship was finished, Le Corbusier briefly educated architecture at the local school and reviewed theoretical architecture via modern methods. Then in 1914, Le Corbusier made his personal professional practice together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. Today some of his works, including the Open Hand Monument in Chandigarh, India and the Villa Savoye in France, can still be located to this time.

In 1928, Le Corbusier began discovering with several furniture designs he discovered and decided the French interior designer Charlotte Perriand to aid him in his studio. This teawork with Perriand eventually made to the existence of three tubulat steel chair designs that were later utilized in two of Le Corbusier’s architectural design, the Maison la Roche and the Pavilion of Barbara and Henry Church in Paris. The chairs were later explicate into what is now the current Le Corbusier collection, and was exhibited for the first time at the Salon d’ Automne art displayin Paris under the Equipment for the Home installation.