“No attention was ever given to the environment in which a man lives: day-to-day existence, those moments and those hours spent in the streets, the squares, in his room, day after day, from infancy till death—all those places potentially inspiring, constituting as they do the context within which our consciousness develops from the moment we open our eyes to life. … I gave to the home its fundamental importance. I called it a ‘machine for living.’” (Le Corbusier on “The Construction of Dwellings,” 1920.)

Le Corbusier’s all-encompassing ideas on architecture, interior spaces and the design of furniture were the catalyst from which the design of this publication germinated.