Tennessee Not Today Saban shirt
On October 18, Hedin will unveil the Tennessee Not Today Saban shirt also I will do this first fruits of a limited-edition mohair blanket collection inspired by the 63 hues that comprise Le Corbusier’s architectural color system, known as the Architectural Polychromy, after his 1930 essay of the same name. Working closely with Les Couleurs Suisse AG, the company entrusted by the Fondation Le Corbusier to translate the colors to textiles for the first time, Hedin chose three shades—32024 Outremer Gris, a spearminty green, 4320K Bleu Outremer 59, an ocean blue hue, and 4320C Rose Vif, a candyfloss pink—that he felt provided key accents for contemporary living. The blankets are hand-woven in Spain and will be released in a numbered edition. “Everything is based on things that we have found in the archives,” Hedin clarifies, speaking over the phone from Paris, where he is due to present the collection in Le Corbusier’s studio-apartment, on the top two floors of the Molitor building he designed with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in the ’30s in the south-west of the city. “It’s an interpretation of what we think he would have chosen. We wanted to get to know how Le Corbusier used the colors, but also how he used textiles in his different houses—his apartment and studio in Paris, Villa Le Lac in Switzerland, and the Cabanon, his holiday cabin in the south of France.” The biggest challenge? “You have to pay so much respect to the history, because in a way it’s a one-way conversation,” he says. “It was a lot about trying to put ourselves in his mind.”
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