Helped by the soothing, filtered light of roofwindows Simon created the relaxing atmosphere of a summer holiday with simplest of means: a pile of pallets against heaps of coloured sand and three weatherworn wooden houses. Now highly priced gallery pieces, these demountable shacks were designed by Jean Prouvé and Pierre Jeanneret during the war to replace housing in bomb devastated villages. The dark metal construction devised by Prouvé in the thirties, greatly adds to the basic charm of these houses. In one of them, presenting his new upholstery on rare Chandigarh pieces Raf Simons cleverly lends the hand of the great Charlotte Perriand, whose influence of the furniture designs of Le Corbusier is beyond debate.
