Le Corbusier was a pioneer in modern architecture, urban planning, and, of course furniture design. He thought about every aspect of how design — from the chair you sit in to how bulldozing Paris could help the underprivileged — can affect human existence. He’s largely credited with starting this crazy design thing called modern architecture.
But there’s one thing that, through all of his research, writing, and belief in “a machine for living in” that Le Corbusier overlooked: Children.
Children don’t prescribe to any set belief in how to behave, how to live, or how to sit. They’re imaginative. They take the limitations we adults try to impose upon them, and flip them around. (That’s my son, DesignKid, on Christopher’s LC4)
So designers, and design fans, remember: As great and thoughtful as your work and pieces and creations are, there’s an 11-year old somewhere that is ready to do something with it you’ve never dreamed of.
