In 1928, the Swiss- born French architect Le Corbusier created some investigational furniture designs in partnership with his cousin Peirre Jeanneret and French interior designer Charlotte Perriand. These creations were notable for incorporating the modernist qualities typically given to modern architecture, thus making them one of the earliest examples of what is now known as modern furniture design. Part of these designs by Le Corbusier is the LC 3 Sofa.
Even if Le Corbusier was one said to have clever remark that sofas are bourgeois, the LC 3 Sofa. One of a handful of sofa styles by Le Corbusier, the Le Corbusier Sofa or LC3 is a two-seater sofa inspired by Le Corbusier’s earlier Grand Comfort armchair style. The sofa is essentially comprised of a tough external frame of chrome-plated tubular steel that outlines the loose cushions that serve as the sofa’s seat and backrest. Before time production runs of the sofa were also fixed with an interior spring mechanism, though this was discarded in sofas done after the late 1950′s.
Debatably the most noteworthy attribute of the LC 3 Sofa is that its frame is located on the outside rather than on the inside as traditional sofa designs obtain. Believing that customary works is old, Le Corbusier made the frame of the sofa exterior to showcase its magnificent structure to the onlooker. And to complement its tinny frame, the sofa’s polyurethane and natural down cushions are covered with black or white upholstery created from either leather of fabric.
The Le Corbusier No. 3 Sofa is part of the LC 3 furniture compilation which also includes the LC 3 Meridienne and the LC3 Ottoman. A three-seater version of the LC 3 Sofa was also manufactured, although it is not portion of the latest collection and was established on several sketches Perriand made at Le Corbusier’s studio.
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