Little Bit of Green

In 1925 the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier wrote a book named L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui. In it Le Corbusier identified furniture as a “human-limb object”, wherein it was customized to the several functions of the human body and was tactful at doing so. Le Corbusier would later bring his concepts to life in 1928 when he completed some experimental figures 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 movable black cushions. The sofa was made by Le Corbusier in cooperation with French interior designer Charlotte Perriand, and is built on the style of the LC2 “Petite Lounge” Armchair.

The outer steel frame of the Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 is created from industrial grade tubular steel, and is layered with a chrome, black matte, or lustrous enamel finish. The cushions for now are occupied with polyurethane or biological down feathers and roofed with high quality black leather. Later reproductions of the LC2 Sofa also includes cushions coated with stain resilient fabric.

The Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 reveals comparison 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 showedt 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 honored with the rights to replicate the LC2 Sofa, and remains its foremost manufacturer to this day. But, because of its recognition and association with the well-known architect reproductions of the Le Corbusier Sofa LC2 by other makers have also reproduced in the market.

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