Even Le Corbusier appreciated cabin porn. In 1952, the modernist architect built a tiny log house on the French Riviera that he could visit every summer: 144 square feet with a Mediterranean view. Outfitted with austere custom furnishings but no kitchen (it was next to a restaurant), the Cabanon, as he called it, still stands, a work of gorgeous restraint.
“I don’t know if you have been there. He had a bed that you cannot sleep on. I mean, it’s, like, hard as hell,” said Beatriz Ramo López de Angulo, 45, a Spanish-born architect who lives in the Netherlands.
Ms. Ramo was not criticizing Corbusier but explaining why she and her…
