The Outstanding Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa : Modern Furniture Design Made By The Exeptional Designer Le Corbusier
Even if most people recognize him today 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, resulting with several tubular steel furniture that were afterwards showed at the historic Salon d’ Automne art exposition in Paris in 1929. Among these furniture creations was the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa.
Le Corbusier once said that sofas are “bourgeois”, which is amazing regarding that his LC3 Sofa is one of his most recognized works. One of the many sofa designs he made in his time, the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa is a two-seater sofa made up of an external 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 form of the couch. The frame is also coated with a layer of chrome, matte black enamel, or silky 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 part of Le Corbusier’s LC3 furniture collection, which also consist of an armchair and “meridienne” chair design. In addition, a three-seater variation of the LC3 Sofa has also been manufactured and recently 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 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 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 reproduce his works. Today Cassina stays as the leading 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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