"on 30th december, 1951, on a table corner in a little snack bar on côte d'azur, i drew - as a birthday present for my wife - the plans for a small holiday house, or cabin, which i built in the following years on the end of a rock lapped by the waves. these plans(my own) were drawn up in three quarters of an hour. they are final; nothing has been changed; the little house was built from a clean copy of these drawings. thanks to the modulor, the venture was completely sure."

 
drawings and text from modulor 2, 1955 , by le corbusier