Though various people remember him now as a highest pioneer in modern architecture, the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier also made modern furniture. In 1928, Le Corbusier (whose real name is Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) worked with French interior designer Charlotte Perriand, making with several tubular steel furniture that were afterwards featured at the historic Salon d’ Automne art exposition in Paris in 1929. Together with these furniture creations was the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa.

Le Corbusier once stated that sofas are “bourgeois”, which is amazing regarding that his LC3 Sofa is one of his most popular works. One of several sofa designs he made in his time, the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa is a two-seater sofa made up of an outside steel frame and loose cushions as its seat, back, and arm rests. Different from those found in conventional sofa works, the LC3 Sofa’s tubular steel frame is on the exterior and delineate the shape of the couch. The border is also coverd with a level of chrome, matte black enamel, or shinny finish to make it be noticeable . The cushions, on the other hand, are filled with polyurethane, polyester or original down feathers and coated with rich black leather or fabric.

The Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa is part of Le Corbusier’s LC3 furniture collection, which also consist of an armchair and “meridienne” chair design. In addition, a three-seater type of the LC3 Sofa has also been made and presently been included in the LC3 collection. This three-sitter version is inspired partly on Le Corbusier’s “Grand Comfort” armchair design as well as from many sketches by Perriand.

The Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa was primarily put into production in the 1930s up to 1959, when the entire Le Corbusier furniture collections were re-introduced with several minor developments. Then in 1964, the designer furniture company Cassina S.p.A acquired the privileges from Le Corbusier himself to produce his works. Today Cassina stays as the highest reproducer of the LC3 Sofa and the rest of Le Corbusier furniture collection, though reproductions from other manufacturers are also generally available.

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