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I have long had the distinct impression that Corbusier was pretty much the poster-boy for uncomfortable, unlivable modernist architecture and furnishings. His chairs are fucking terrible. That even the Soviets told him to get bent speaks volumes, I think. I mean, Frank Lloyd Wright's stuff isn't particularly livable but...
It's a two-sided coin. On the one hand, being rejected by the USSR was much deserved. On the other hand, that rejected Moscow plan spawned the damned Radiant City whose dreadful influence we are still trying to erase.