This key ring featuring the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier's 1945 Le Modulor design, is part of ACME studios' collection of office accessories which includes card holders, cufflinks, and roller ball pens and many more items tributing the legacy of the architect.
About Le Modulor
In 1945 the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier presented his finalized study of human proportions as an attempt to create a new set of standardized system of measurement based upon the dimensions of the human body. Undoubtedly, Le Corbusier's Le Modulor figure belong to a tradition of exploring the mathematical relationships of the body, including the studies of the Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. As an architect, ultimately Le Corbusier's purpose was to create a standardize measurement based upon human proportionality in order to implement it in architecture and thus grant structures a greater stability. Le Corbusier's use the human body as the foundation of measurements in architecture remains to be one of the most controversial approaches of the discipline, yet it is still continued to be used by engineers and architects today.
The Le Corbusier key ring is made of zinc alloy and a braided stainless steel wire to support your keys. The Le Modulor design on the key ring is made on colored enamel and features ACME studios' logo on the back of the key ring. The key ring comes in a small ACME black box, in a small pouch including a short Le Corbusier biography.
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) was a Swiss-French architect. By moving urban architecture into the technological era, he perpetuated the idea that architecture can serve utilitarian and utopic purposes. His style arose from his desire to provide better and more practical living conditions for residents of crowded cities. above all, he remains one of the most influential architects of the 20th-century.
During his career, he constructed buildings throughout Europe, India, and America, and he impressed with his talents around the world. He was also an accomplished painter and also devoted to various other art forms.
He adopted the name Le Corbusier in 1920, probably after a growing dissatisfaction with the Cubist movement.
Considered to be the master of modern architecture, Le Corbusier has only been matched by Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a founding member of the Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and has hugely influenced urban planning. Eventually, his plans and vision will go down as some of the most important in architectural history.