French furniture designer Pierre Charpin has transformed Appartement No 50, an almost completely preserved apartment in its 1952 state, at Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, France (I also wrote about it last year when Konstantin Grcic furnished the same apartment).
Classified as a ‘historic monument’ in 1995, it opens each summer during which a few of the most talented international designers are invited to furnish it. This year Charpin has mounted large drawings on the wall and added objects by Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. The result very much fits in with the original features by Charlotte Perriand and Corbusier and the primary colour scheme of the apartment.
For more details on how to visit, see: http://www.appt50lc.org/
All photographs courtesy Philippe Savoir & Fondation Le Corbusier/ ADAGP 2014
