Anthony Guerrée & M Éditions at Le Corbusier Foundation.

Paris-based artist and furniture designer Anthony Guerrée has unveiled “Fragments”, a new collection of marble furniture and objects in collaboration with M éditions. Presented by The Foundation Le Corbusier, the collection is composed of everything from coffee tables to pencil cases, loungers to pocket trays, and consoles to floor lamps.

Fragments, like much of Guerrée’s work, is at once grounded in a thousand-year-old history and in the foundations of modernity. With three distinct lines—Dorik, Ionik and Corinth, inspired by the three ancient architectural orders Doric; Ionic and Corinthian—Guerrée examines two different mythologies: Greek architecture and Le Corbusier. The designer wished to make an explicit reference to architecture, and more personally to the wonder felt by Le Corbusier when he discovered the Parthenon.

“To work with marble is to investigate history,” explains Guerrée. “I have entered into a passionate dialogue between craftsmanship and design, inspired by the three ancient architectural orders: the Doric order and its noble austerity, the Ionic order and its tender scrollwork, and the Corinthian order and its abundance of expression.”

Held at Maison La Roche in Paris, a unique architectural project designed and built by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret between 1923 and 1925, the house looked to combine an art gallery with the apartments of the owner and collector Raoul La Roche. Now the current home of the Foundation Le Corbusier, the designer’s creations sit in dialogue with the spaces, revealed and magnified by the changing play of light and shadow.

The fragments of marble worked and transformed by Guerrée evoke the recycled stones filling the concrete framework of the Notre-Dame du Haut Chapel, built in The Vosges by Le Corbusier in 1955.

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[Images courtesy of Anthony Guerrée. Photography by Alexandre Tabaste.]