The greatest of the architects built the smallest home for himself. But Corbusier cannot be called inconsistent. He believed it best to live in spaces that you could reach across from wall to wall, with a toilet as tiny as in a commercial airliner and with furniture consisting of two stools. That is the kind of home he built, hardly a home in fact but rather a hut (in French “cabanon”). Built beside a restaurant owned by a friend, the house had no need for a kitchen: a door led directly from home to restaurant. The hut looked like a woodshed from outside but was equipped with plumbing and a primitive system of ventilation. The walls inside were painted with colorful murals.
