The Ideal Modern Furniture With The LC 3 Sofa Done By The Talented Le Corbusier

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 designs were acknowledge for incorporating the modernist qualities typically attributed to modern architecture, thus creating them one of the primary model of what is now called as modern furniture design. Among 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 sturdy external frame of chrome-plated tubular steel that outlines the loose cushions that work as the sofa’s seat and backrest. Before time production runs of the sofa were also fixed with an interior spring system, though this was discarded in sofas made after the late 1950’s.

Debatably the most prominent attribute of the LC 3 Sofa is that its frame is located on the outside rather than on the inner part as traditional sofa designs obtain. Believing that customary design is old, Le Corbusier placed 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 a set of the LC 3 furniture compilation which also includes the LC 3 Meridienne and the LC3 Ottoman. A three-seater type of the LC 3 Sofa was also produced, although it is not part of the original collection and was based on several sketches Perriand made at Le Corbusier’s studio.