{"id":99198,"date":"2012-12-06T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/cassina-brings-le-corbusiers-french-hideaway-caban\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:29:15","slug":"cassina-brings-le-corbusiers-french-hideaway-caban","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/cassina-brings-le-corbusiers-french-hideaway-caban\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassina Brings Le Corbusier’s French Hideaway Cabanon to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Sixty years ago, Le Corbusier constructed a tiny log cabin perched high above the Mediterranean to serve as his summer getaway near Nice, France. Now, the interior of that structure, called the Cabanon, has been reproduced and is on view for the first time in the U.S. in the Mirroring the original cocoon-like hideaway, which the architect designed and built in 1952, the model displayed in Miami is made from birch and other species of woods and measures a mere 13 by 15 feet in size.<\/p>\n \n Why reproduce the one-room retreat?<\/p>\n According to Gianluca Armento, brand director for \n Like the original, situated in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, the replica is furnished with built-ins and reproductions of the same boxy stools.<\/p>\n Even the process of assembly mimics the one Le Corbusier used. Then as now, components were made off-site (in Corsica for the original), were sent by ship to the locale (the Riviera in 1952; Miami in 2012), and reassembled on site.<\/p>\n For those seeing the Cabanon model, it\u2019s warmth and intimacy may come as a surprise.<\/p>\n \u201cIt belongs to a later part of life in which [Le Corbusier \u2019s] domestic designs are becoming more comfortable,\u201d says Professor Jean-Louis Cohen, professor of architectural history at
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\n , Cabanon is \u201ca very important piece of heritage from Le Corbusier, one of the final points of his creations.\u201d Cassina holds exclusive rights to manufacture Le Corbusier \u2019s furniture designs and spent $100,000 on the Cabanon replica. \u201cWe are bringing the experience to people who haven\u2019t been able to go to the actual site in France,\u201d says Armento.<\/p>\n
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\n . Le Cabanon is \u201cpoetic, very touching, very warm,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n