Corbusier

But he had written the book on Le Corbusier.

Made up of seven large buildings – dubbed Vele or “sails” for their triangular shape – the complex was inspired by modernist housing developments developed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier and was meant to house some of Naples’ fast-growing population.

Influenced by the Swiss-French Le Corbusier, and the German Walter Gropius, who arrived in London in 1934 fleeing Nazi Germany, these designers saw the new materials, minimal ornamentation and sweeping, simple lines of modernism as the way forward.

Facing the marble countertop are two original teak stools by the Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret, designed around 1965 for the science lab at Panjab University in Chandigarh, India, a city planned from the ground up by the Swiss French architect Le Corbusier.

He designed the house shortly after his apprenticeship with Le Corbusier in Paris and closely followed the master architect’s five “points” or principles, including the columns that hold up the structure and its rooftop garden, reminiscent of Villa Savoye, meant to compensate for the green space lost by building.