An LC VII floor lamp by Le Corbusier
"Architecture — you know, this one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration."
John Caramanica's interview with Kanye West has people talking, even architects. The Chicago-bred rapper drops the name of French modernist Le Corbusier in reference to the songwriting and production on his new Yeezus. Few musicians have made their inspiration from the visual realm as explicit as the closely-watched hip-hopper does here.
West goes on to detail his conversion to minimalism via furniture museum shows and Corbusier creations.
"I would go to museums and just like, the Louvre would have a furniture exhibit, and I visited it like, five times, even privately. And I would go see actual Corbusier homes in real life and just talk about, you know, why did they design it? They did like, the biggest glass panes that had ever been done. Like I say, I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body."