The Le Corbusier Chaise Longue (LC4) is the best known and most successful of his designs that first exhibited at the Salon D’ Automne in 1929. The LC4 was designed in 1928 for the furnishing of a villa in the Ville d’ Avray, and utilizes exposed structural elements with padded leather cushion and headrest. Le Corbusier was borne Charles Edouard Jeanneret, and is widely considered the most important Modernist chair designer in France. As a spirited advocate of Modernism, he created a range of chairs that express his ideals with great sophistication. The LC4 allows you to select from the various choices of positions for guaranteed comfort
Frame: Chromed tubular steel on a black lacquered steel base.
Upholstery: Leather cushions & headrest Price:£ 380.00
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier 1887 - 1965
Swiss born Charles Edouard Jeanneret, was a highly skilled, prize winning watch engraver, until he changed his profession and his name to become the renowned architect and designer that we know as Le Corbusier.
In 1910 he apprenticed himself at the acclaimed studios of Peter Behrens in Berlin (where both Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius worked and trained). He soon returned to Switzerland to teach and practice architecture.
Le Corbusier's Domino House became his first milestone of innovative and inspirational creation. His use of reinforced concrete (supported by steel pillars) negated the necessity for the usual confining supporting walls, thus creating an early example of the open plan interior.
He published his ideas in a book entitled, Vers une Architecture, in which he refers to the house as a machine for living, an industrial product that should include functional furniture or equipment de l'habitation. In this spirit, Le Corbusier co-designed a system of furniture with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. The tubular steel furniture — like the famous chaise and Grand Confort chair — projected a new rationalist aesthetic that came to epitomize the International Style.
