Berlin - La cité radieuse de le Corbursier - Apt 258 refurbished by Architect Philipp Mohr - Photographed by Didier Gaillard-Hohlweg
Berlin La cité radieuse de le Corbursier - Apt Philipp Mohr
Photography by Didier Gaillard-Hohlweg
The famous Unite d’Habitation building in Berlin by Le Corbusier was not actually built the way Le Corbusier had envisioned it in 1958.
A team of designers and contractors lead by architect Philipp Mohr from 2016-2018 has done a meticulous and fantastical renovation of what an apartment in Berlin could have looked like. An interesting challenge that involved archival research, shopping for antiques and surveying of apartments from it’s ‚twins‘ in the Unité d’Habitation Marseille from1952 and a museum apartment built in Paris in 2008.
The furniture in the apartment is a collection of mainly four french designers: Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Carlotte Perriand. Some liberties in assembling the furniture were taken as they don’t all belong exactly to the apartment originally and also not to the same time. For example Jeanneret’s furniture belongs to Corbusier’s projects in India and the steel furniture belongs to an ear- lier time period. However it all could have been assembled in a 1958 Berlin.
The apartment with the number 258 has been visited by many architects and scholars form around the world in 2018 and has been part of a photo shoot for the fashion Magazine Numero Berlin in 2018.
A buyer has been found and the next phase of the project is about to begin.
Philipp Mohr is a German-American designer with studio’s in Brooklyn and Berlin. His team has designed residential and retail projects in the US and Germany for the last two decades.
©2018 Didier Gaillard-Hohlweg
