Except for his continued belief in the standardization of small things, like windows, doors, hardware and lighting fixtures -- always beautifully designed and executed -- he abandoned many modernist ideas as inhuman and unworkable.
The power of energy efficient lighting is not just in the emerging hardware, but in the software and networking that can maximize that hardware to deliver widespread economic benefit and truly change the way lighting is managed today.
Their interior design collaboration with India Mahdavi for Paris's Thoumieux hotel and its two restaurants also started with a typeface, which then grew into a motif that showed up in furniture, lighting and brass hardware.