Ideal Modern Furniture With The LC 3 Sofa Made By The Humble Le Corbusier

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Ideal Modern Furniture With The LC 3 Sofa Made By The Humble Le Corbusier

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In 1928, the Swiss- born French architect Le Corbusier made several experimental furniture designs in partnership with his cousin Peirre Jeanneret and French interior designer Charlotte Perriand. These creations were acknowledge for including the modernist attributes typically given to modern architecture, thus making them one of the primary model of what is now known as modern furniture design. Among these designs by Le Corbusier is the LC 3 Sofa.

While Le Corbusier was one called to have quipped 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 fundamentally made up of a tough external frame of chrome-plated tubular steel that outlines the loose cushions that work as the sofa's seat and backrest. Early production runs of the sofa were also fixed with an interior spring mechanism, though this was changed in sofas done after the late 1950's.

Possibly the most noteworthy feature 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 Believing that traditional design is obsolete, Le Corbusier placed the frame of the sofa exterior to showcase its elegant structure to the client. And to balance its metallic frame, the sofa's polyurethane and natural down cushions are covered with black or white upholstery made from either leather of fabric.

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The Le Corbusier No. 3 Sofa is a set of the LC 3 furniture collection 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 part of the latest collection and was established on several sketches Perriand made at Le Corbusier's studio.