#machine-age

[infiniteradius]

"Electrical Plant, Germany" -- from Machine-Age Exposition: Catalogue from 1927. Source.

[mikasavela]

Some of that Léger

Machine-Age Exposition May 16 - May 28, New York 1927. Poster by Fernand Léger, a close pal of Le Corbusier.

Richard Sennett has described (The Conscience of the Eye. The Design and Social Life of Cities, 1990) their trip to New York in 1935. Le Corbusier was enthusiastic about the impacts of technology on the American lifestyle and the true change of the speeding modernity. He envisioned people on roof terraces, mixing cocktails, away from the traffic and the streets, accompanied by a white grand piano and exotic flowers. Léger, on the other hand, was more interested in honing his English in bars, going to movies, taking the subway and walking around at night at bus garages.