Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Jeanneret (22 March 1896 – 4 December 1967) was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his cousin, Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier), for about twenty years. Arnold Andre Pierre Jeanneret-Gris was born in Geneva. He grew up in the typical Jura landscape that influenced his early childhood and his Geneva Calvinism roots. He attended the School of Fine Arts (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Geneva). As a young student, he was a brilliant painter, artist and architect, greatly influenced by Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), his cousin and mentor for life. He was a cyclist
Sel gris Sel gris Sel gris (pl. sels gris, "gray salt" in French) is a coarse granular sea salt popularized by the French. "Sel gris" comes from the same solar evaporation salt pans as fleur de sel but is harvested differently; it is allowed to come into contact with the bottom of the salt pan before being raked, hence its gray color. "Sel gris" is coarser than "fleur de sel" but is also a moist salt, typically containing 13 percent residual moisture. The bottom of the salt pan (French "oeillet") may be composed of clay lined pools , basalt, sand, concrete, or