The Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa: The Finest Creation Le Corbusier As A Modern Furniture Design
September 3, 2010
Though various people recognize him today as a highest pioneer in modern architecture, the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier also designed modern furniture. In 1928, Le Corbusier (whose true 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 display in Paris in 1929. Among these furniture designs was the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa.
Le Corbusier once said that sofas are “bourgeois”, which is surprising considering that his LC3 Sofa is one of his most recognized works. One of the many sofa styles he made in his time, the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa is a two-seater sofa made up of an external steel frame and unfastened cushions as its seat, back, and arm rests. Different from those seen in conventional sofa designs, 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 packed with polyurethane, polyester or natural down feathers and covered with rich black leather or fabric.
The Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa is a set of Le Corbusier’s LC3 furniture collection, which also includes an armchair and “meridienne” chair design. In addition, a three-seater type of the LC3 Sofa has also been made and recently been included in the LC3 set. This three-sitter version is inspired partly on Le Corbusier’s “Grand Comfort” armchair design as well as from several sketches by Perriand.
The Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa was first put into production in the 1930s up to 1959, when the entire Le Corbusier furniture group were re-introduced with various minor improvements. Then in 1964, the designer furniture business Cassina S.p.A acquired the rights from Le Corbusier himself to produce his designs. Today Cassina remains as the highest reproducer of the LC3 Sofa and the rest of Le Corbusier furniture collection, although reproductions from other producers are also broadly available.
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