Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier designed lamps only when a building needed them, and each of the pieces Nemo produces comes out of a specific project rather than a catalogue.

The Lampe de Marseille was made for the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille around 1949–52: a wall lamp with two joints in the arm and a rotating fixing, so a single fitting could serve a whole room. The Projecteur 365 was drawn for the High Court at Chandigarh in 1954, and the Parliament floor lamp for the Chandigarh assembly in 1963 — both borrowed from industrial fittings, with cone diffusers that swivel between direct and indirect light.

Nemo produces these as authorised editions in agreement with the Fondation Le Corbusier, from the drawings for the Marseille Cité Radieuse, the Chandigarh Capitol and the maison La Roche in Paris.