Swiss watch model Rado has launched True Sq. Thinline Les Couleurs Le Corbusier, three limited-edition timepieces that use architect Le Corbusier’s “naturally harmonious” color palette.
Produced from ceramic and sapphire crystal, the watches are available in three different-coloured variations, every with a slim, sq. form that mixes Rado’s True Sq. and True Thinline designs.
One watch is all black, whereas the opposite two characteristic a mix of various colors. One is available in grey-brown and cream-white, with the opposite two-tone watch combining iron-grey and “barely greyed English inexperienced”, the model stated.
The colors had been chosen based mostly on Le Corbusier’s Architectural Polychromy color idea, which was created in 1931 as a palette of 63 shades that the architect described as “architectural, naturally harmonious and in a position to be mixed in each manner”. The palette was prolonged in 1959.
“Le Corbusier made a big contribution to creating form and color an important factor of structure,” Rado CEO Adrian Bosshard informed Dezeen.
“Simply as for Rado, form and color are important components of design,” he added.
“That is why we determined to pay tribute to his visionary eye and to tackle the problem of reproducing a few of the non-trivial colors of Le Corbusier’s palette in ceramics.”
The model selected to create the all-black timepiece because it was the primary ceramic color that Rado launched and the hue has grow to be related to the model.
In the meantime, the two-tone variations had been meant as an instance the flexibility of Le Corbusier’s palette.
“The 2 two-tone merchandise illustrate that in Le Corbusier’s color system all colors might be mixed,” Brosshard defined. “We got here to this alternative after a lot experimentation.”
Every of the timepieces is available in a restricted version of 999 and the watches had been created along with Le Couleurs Suisse, which licenses the colors for the Le Corbusier Basis.
The watches additionally characteristic the Le Corbusier color strips, in addition to the phrases Le Corbusier signature Polychromie Architecturale and “Restricted Version certainly one of 999” on the sapphire crystal.
In one other celebration of the architect, the launch of the three new fashions passed off at Paris structure museum Cité de l’structure et du patrimoine.
Right here, guests might admire a real-size mannequin of one of many flats inside Le Corbusier’s iconic Unite d’Habitation residence block in Marseilles, which featured lots of the vivid colors seen in his Architectural Polychromy palette.
In addition to launching the True Sq. Thinline Les Couleurs Le Corbusier, Rado additionally launched a collectors’ field that includes the black True Sq. Thinline Les Couleurs Le Corbusier watch, along with eight of the spherical Thinline Les Couleurs Le Corbusier watches from the prevailing assortment.
Different watches designed by or knowledgeable by well-known architects embrace a sq. timepiece designed by Pritzker prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza. Rado additionally just lately launched an up to date DiaStar watch by designer Alfredo Häberli.
The pictures are courtesy of Rado.
