especially, as has already been noted, his design for the Pavillon de l’Esprit
Nouveau, created for the 1925 Paris exhibition. As has also been pointed
out, like the constructors of the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition, he deliber-
ately left a tree on the site, making a suitable hole in the ceiling for it to pass
through, less out of concern for the tree than from a desire not to disturb
the space around his building.
Le Corbusier also found other ways of bringing the public sphere
into the private arena. They included designing furniture items destined
for the former which had their origins in the latter, and using ‘off the
shelf ’ items of furniture and pieces of equipment. It has been suggested
that the architect took his interest in flat roofs, terraces and balconies
from Swiss sanatoria with which he was familiar. Similarly the design for
his 1928 Chaise Longue, which he created with Pierre Jeanneret and142 Charlotte Perriand and used in many of his interiors, could well have
A chaise longue, designed by Le Corbusier with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand,
1928, photographed in 2007 in the interior of the Villa Savoye.