Le Corbusier 1948 · Paris
Wake & do calisthenics
06:00–06:45
“forty-five minutes of calisthenics”
Short verbatim excerpt · Mason Currey
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Biographical account · reproduced book excerptOpen
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work — Le Corbusier
2013 · passage reproduced by Meaning Ring, 12 May 2015
Opening paragraph · exercise, coffee and breakfast
Passage: Opening paragraph · waking and exercise
Timing & context
A note on this hour
Currey gives a 06:00 wake-up and 45 minutes of exercise. The displayed finish follows that duration.
Paris · postwar atelier routine · Reconstructed postwar working routine
Combines Sołtan’s memoir, Currey’s account and Le Corbusier’s own words. Morning-work and dinner positions are illustrative; gaps remain undocumented.
1948 represents Sołtan’s 1945–1949 collaboration and is also the year of Le Corbusier’s published account of his painting mornings.