Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 The Excellent Creation Of Le Corbusier

January 12th, 2010 by Steve Evans

In 1925 the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier wrote a book called L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui. In it Le Corbusier classified furniture as a “human-limb object”, wherein it was modified to the numerous functions of the human body and was subtle at doing so. Le Corbusier would later bring his thoughts to life in 1928 when he completed some experimental patterns for furniture. One of these was the Le Corbusier Sofa LC2.

Also recognized purely as the LC2 Sofa, the Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 is a two to three-person capacity sofa made up of an external steel frame and free black cushions. The sofa was created by Le Corbusier in partnership with French interior designer Charlotte Perriand, and is built on the pattern of the LC2 “Petite Lounge” Armchair.

The outer steel frame of the Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 is completed from industrial grade tubular steel, and is covered with a chrome, black matte, or silky enamel finish. The cushions for the moment are packed with polyurethane or biological down feathers and roofed with high quality black leather. Later reproductions of the LC2 Sofa also presents cushions coated with stain resilient fabric.

The Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 reveals resemblance with another Le Corbusier sofa works, which is the two-seater Le Corbusier Sofa LC3. The sofa also holds excellence for being one of some of Le Corbusier’s works that were exhibitedt at the Salon d’ Automne presentation at Paris, France in 1929.

The Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 was first created by the Thonet furniture company in the 1930s and afterwards by the Swiss company Embru. In 1964, the designer furniture company Cassina of Italy was rewarded with the rights to remade the LC2 Sofa, and remains its leading manufacturer to this day. Though, because of its fame and association with the well-known architect reproductions of the Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 by other producers have also propagated in the market.