At “On The Rocks,” Blazy and Bottega Veneta can even reveal what occurs if you encase the LC14 Tabouret in the home’s trademark Intreccio foulard approach—after which colour that woven leather-based in hues that basically sing, like purple, yellow, turquoise-y blue, and a shade the home calls raintree inexperienced. Then—sure, there’s one other then—it’s painted over in black, making a beguiling and unusual interaction between colour, non-color, and craft. The entire leather-based work was executed at Bottega’s workshops in Montebello, close to Vicenza, in Italy. Maybe unsurprisingly, given the extent of workmanship concerned right here, that is all very restricted version: 100 of the scorched wooden, 60 complete of the woven leather-based. (Don’t even ask me about the associated fee. I didn’t dare enquire. I need one of many raintree inexperienced leather-based ones so badly, however I don’t have a spare kidney helpful.)
What actually emerges with all this glorious experimentation is that it doesn’t matter what you do to the LC14 Tabouret—burn it, cowl it in leather-based, apply joyous colour—its important economic system of line, its sturdiness, and its unadorned practicality stay unchanged. That’s becoming, given—fast backstory right here—the origins of the piece. Le Corbusier discovered it as a Scottish whisky crate washed up on the seaside close to his tiny experimental Cabanon residence at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Côte d’Azur in France; modernists again within the day beloved nothing greater than to see what may very well be executed to make small residing areas comfortably liveable. (Says Blazy: “I discover it fascinating that Le Corbusier selected for his own residence this fisherman-style cabin, constructed by conventional carpenters. Regardless of his well-known comment a couple of home being a ‘machine for residing in’ he was drawn in direction of one thing pure, easy, tactile, hand-crafted.”) Le Corbusier then reworked his discovered object in 1952 into a brand new model. The remainder is, fairly actually, historical past.
