At “On The Rocks,” Blazy and Bottega Veneta may even reveal what occurs whenever you encase the LC14 Tabouret in the home’s trademark Intreccio foulard method—after which coloration that woven leather-based in hues that actually sing, like pink, yellow, turquoise-y blue, and a shade the home calls raintree inexperienced. Then—sure, there’s one other then—it’s painted over in black, making a beguiling and unusual interaction between coloration, non-color, and craft. The entire leather-based work was executed at Bottega’s workshops in Montebello, close to Vicenza, in Italy. Maybe unsurprisingly, given the extent of workmanship concerned right here, that is all very restricted version: 100 of the scorched wooden, 60 complete of the woven leather-based. (Don’t even ask me about the associated fee. I didn’t dare enquire. I would like one of many raintree inexperienced leather-based ones so badly, however I don’t have a spare kidney helpful.)

What actually emerges with all this glorious experimentation is that it doesn’t matter what you do to the LC14 Tabouret—burn it, cowl it in leather-based, apply joyous coloration—its important financial system of line, its sturdiness, and its unadorned practicality stay unchanged. That’s becoming, given—fast backstory right here—the origins of the piece. Le Corbusier discovered it as a Scottish whisky crate washed up on the seaside close to his tiny experimental Cabanon house at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Côte d’Azur in France; modernists again within the day beloved nothing greater than to see what could possibly be executed to make small dwelling areas comfortably liveable. (Says Blazy: “I discover it fascinating that Le Corbusier selected for his own residence this fisherman-style cabin, constructed by conventional carpenters. Regardless of his well-known comment a couple of home being a ‘machine for dwelling in’ he was drawn in the direction of one thing pure, easy, tactile, hand-crafted.”) Le Corbusier then reworked his discovered object in 1952 into a brand new model. The remainder is, fairly actually, historical past.