In 1960, Heidi Weber had the vision of building a museum designed by
Le Corbusier. This building should exhibit his works of art in an ideal environment created by L-C himself. This last building designed by L-C was completed in July 1967. Today, it is still a unique "Gesamtkunstwerk" (a complete work of art). the Heidi Weber Museum
Starting out in 1957 in Zurich as a successful interior decorator in her own studio of interior design "Mezzanin", Ms. Heidi Weber was immediately impressed by
Le Corbusier's power to condense tremendous rhythm and spirit into canvas. While his "raison d'être" was for so long architecture, his art, which he always kept as his private labour, has emerged as an equally spectacular legacy.
Soon after her first meeting with
Le Corbusier at Cap Martin in 1958, Heidi Weber started under a licence agreement with
Le Corbusier to produce 3 chairs and the chaise longue which he designed in 1927. The chairs became immediatly a comercial success and after a few years, the Heidi Weber production facility was unable to keep up with the demand. Unmotivated to expand her small factory into a big production facility, she sub-licensed her rights to the Italian furniture company Cassina. Since that time, Cassina has a world-wide hudge success selling these chairs. furniture design
Heidi Weber visited
Le Corbusier in Paris every other week during their close collaboration, which lasted over a period of seven years. She organized and held regular exhibitions of his paintings, sculptures and original graphic works in her gallery Mezzanin in Zurich. Through these activities and her genuine commitment towards L-C's work, she won
Le Corbusier's confidence and received from him the exclusive rights to represent his complete art works for a thirty year period. She also published his graphic oeuvre world-wide. the graphic works
For the past four decades, Heidi Weber's efforts have been exclusively devoted to make
Le Corbusier's universal genius recognized. This holds true for her numerous exhibitions, publications, foundations and donations as well as her international networking. True to
Le Corbusier's legacy, Heidi Weber's desire is to spread
Le Corbusier's universal message to all the continents on which his works have become part of the world's cultural heritage.
