THE FINE ARTS
TAPESTRIES
L-C "I was enchanted, one day,
to have to tackle the problem of the tapestry. My pictoral studies "Glasses
and bottles" from 1918 to 1928 form an initial cycle of ten years of iron
discipline: the search for a plastic expression allied with the spirit of the
time.
The destiny of the tapestry of today emerges: it becomes the "Mural"
of the modern age. We have become "nomads" living in apartments, in
dwellings of the same standard design; we will change apartments according to
the evolution of our families: successive growth or diminution; from time we
will alter our lifestyle, also the neighborhood, etc. We cannot have a mural
painted on the walls of our apartment. On the other hand, the tapestry, this
woolen wall, can be taken down from the wall, rolled up, and taken under the
arm at will, to be hung up somewhere else. Thus it is that I have named my tapestries
"nomadic murals".
The play of circumstances brought me in contact with Aubusson. I was asked to bring a new spirit, expressing the spirit of the age. Thus I set up the mock-ups for more than thirty tapestries which, under the impulse of Pierre Baudoin, were woven in Aubusson.
Tapestries, drawings, paintings, sculptures, books, houses and city plans are, in my personal case, one and the same manifestation of stimulating harmony at the heart of a new machine-age society."
Le Corbusier / 1955
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