Le Corbusier's Furniture

Le Corbusier's Furniture
Designer	Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret
Date	1928–1930
Materials	Chrome on steel frame. Leather cushions
Style / tradition	Modernist
Sold by	Cassina S.p.A.

Le Corbusier's Furniture is a classic furniture line created by Le Corbusier.^[1]^[2] The line was introduced in 1928 at the Salon d‘Autumne in Paris.

History

Le Corbusier began experimenting with furniture design in 1928 after seeing a model apartment designed by the architect Charlotte Perriand and inviting her to join his studio. His cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, also collaborated on many of the designs. Before the arrival of Perriand, Le Corbusier relied on ready-made furniture to furnish his projects, such as the simple pieces manufactured by Thonet, the company that manufactured his designs in the 1930s.

Conceptualization

In 1928, Le Corbusier and Perriand began to put the expectations for furniture Le Corbusier outlined in his 1925 book L'Art Décoratif d'aujourd'hui into practice. In the book he defined three different furniture types: type-needs, type-furniture, and human-limb objects.

He defined human-limb objects as: "Extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions that are type-needs and type-functions, therefore type-objects and type-furniture. The human-limb object is a docile servant. A good servant is discreet and self-effacing in order to leave his master free. Certainly, works of art are tools, beautiful tools. And long live the good taste manifested by choice, subtlety, proportion, and harmony".

Products

The first results of the collaboration were three chrome-plated tubular steel chairs designed for two of his projects, The Maison la Roche in Paris and a pavilion for Barbara and Henry Church. The line of furniture was expanded for Le Corbusier's 1929 Salon d'Automne installation, 'Equipment for the Home'.

These chairs included the LC-1, LC-2, LC-3, and LC-4, originally titled "Basculant" (LC-1), "Fauteuil grand confort, petit modèle" (LC-2, "great comfort sofa, small model"), "Fauteuil grand confort, grand modèle" (LC-3, "great comfort sofa, large model"), and "Chaise longue" (LC-4, "Long chair").^[3] The LC-2 and LC-3 are more colloquially referred to as the petit confort and grand confort (abbreviation of full title, and due to respective sizes). The LC-2 was featured in the Maxell "blown away" advertisement.

List of Furniture items

LC1 - Sling Chair, originally titled Basculant
LC2 - Grand confort, petit modèle referred as Cushion Baskets (1928)
LC3 - Grand confort, grand modèle referred as Cushion Baskets (1928)
LC4 - Chaise longue "Long chair"
LC5 - Sofa Bed
LC5.F - Canapé
LC6 - Table
LC7 - The Swivel Chair (1928)
LC8 - Swivel Stool
LC9 - Bathroom Stool
LC10 P - Rectangular Low Table
LC11 P - Table
LC12 - Table designed in 1925 for Villa La Roche
LC13 - Fauteuil Wagon Fumoir
LC14 - Tabouret (1952 - 1959) (Tabouret LC14.01, Tabouret LC14.02)
LC15 - Table De Conférence
LC16 - Table De Travail Avec Rayonnages
LC17 - Portemantea (1957)
LC19 - Table Esprit Nouveau

Wooden

Authentic wood design

References

^ Moonan, Wendy (9 April 2004). "ANTIQUES; A Modernist and Innovator, Rediscovered". The New York Times.
^ "Chandigarh prisoners restore le Corbusier furniture". www.sify.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
^ Le Corbusier Classics LC2, LC3 and LC4 Get Colorful, Courtesy Of Cassina. 2010-07-27

External links

For a contrast between the LC2 and Gray's Bibendum chair

[1] Moonan, Wendy (9 April 2004). "ANTIQUES; A Modernist and Innovator, Rediscovered". The New York Times.

[2] "Chandigarh prisoners restore le Corbusier furniture". www.sify.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

[3] Le Corbusier Classics LC2, LC3 and LC4 Get Colorful, Courtesy Of Cassina. 2010-07-27

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