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Les Couleurs Le Corbusier Buch der Farbenklaviaturen [KLCFK]

Les Couleurs Le Corbusier Buch der Farbenklaviaturen

Book of color keyboards by Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier's color keyboards are a standard tool for architectural color design that correspond to natural sensibilities and individual needs.

The color keyboards

The Polychromie Architecturale consists of 63 fascinating shades that Le Corbusier originally created in two color collections for the Swiss wallpaper company Salubra. The first collection from 1931 includes 43 shades. The second collection from 1959 completes the Polychromie Architecturale with 20 more colors. Le Corbusier organized the colors on 13 color keyboards - "Les Claviers de couleurs" - in such a way that one can isolate or combine three to five colors at a time with a slider, the so-called "glasses", and thus find one's personal intuitive color design. With his Polychromie Architecturale, Le Corbusier takes into account the different sensitivities of individuals when choosing colors and uses his color keyboards to create different spatial moods that reflect specific functions of the colors. The combination of variegated and achromatic tones and of different brightness values underlines Le Corbusier's extraordinary experiences in architecture and as a painter, which form the foundation of the entire Polychromie Architecturale.

The color keyboards from 1931 with 12 individual color moods

Le Corbusier developed nine spatial color moods, each with three mural hues (colors that set the mood) and selected combination colors. He gave each mood a name that reflected its polychromatic effect: Space, Sky, Velvet I and Velvet II, Wall I and Wall II, Sand I and Sand II, and Landscape. Le Corbusier designated three other color claviatures without specifically defined color moods as Variegated I, Variegated II, and Variegated III. The hues are arranged systematically so that the glasses accompanying the collection allow two or three hues to be isolated on the background nuances that set the mood, as well as a single hue on two background nuances.

The 1959 colour keyboard

From the 20 colours of the second collection, Le Corbusier developed an additional colour keyboard that offers numerous further possibilities of colour combination. Three or four colours can be isolated and matched for the 1959 collections. All 20 colours of 1959 can also be harmoniously integrated into the moods of 1931. On 44 pages, the book presents the 63 colors on a total of 13 color keyboards and includes the "glasses" belonging to the color selection on two separate slides. The color keyboards were produced in high-quality 4-color printing.