LC1 Faut. à dossier basculant, Le Corbusier, 1928 – Vitra Miniature Design Museum
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Vitra Miniature of the Miniature Collection, Vitra Design Museum. Le Corbusier preferred a plain and timeless design for
the furniture in the houses he created. In the shape of the fauteuil à
dossier basculant together with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand
he created a visitor’s armchair which had an exceptionally light
appearance thanks to its tubular steel frame. At the same time, with its
adjustable backrest the armchair was exceedingly comfortable. The
backrest was attached to the frame by two hinges and followed the user’s
movements while also offering the necessary support. The seat and backrest in the first few versions were
made of canvas with leather edging. Calf-skin covers were also
available. Skins of different colors were carefully selected according
to their grain and pattern, ensuring that each armchair was unique. In 1928, under the watchful eyes of the designers the
first versions were manufactured for use in Villa Church and Villa La
Roche. The fauteuil à dossier basculant first went on public show at the
Paris Autumn Salon in 1929.
Miniature, scale 1:6.
107 x 98 x 98 mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1)-model – since 1965 Cassina S.p.A., Meda/Milano, Italy.
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107 x 98 x 98 mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1)-model – since 1965 Cassina S.p.A., Meda/Milano, Italy.
www.cassina.com
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Designer furniture by Le Corbusier at lachair.com
Le Corbusier, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, studied painting and architecture at the local École d’Art. In 1907, he worked for Josef Hofmann in Vienna, where he also made the acquaintance of Adolf Loos. Another important influence came when he was working in Paris in 1909 for over a year in the practice of Auguste Perret, a pioneering exponent of building with reinforced concrete using steel. During this period, he also visited the architect and urban planner Tony Garnier in Lyon. It was not long before Le Corbusier was focusing on modern reinforced concrete architecture. n 1917, he moved to Paris. Since he only had a few architectural commissions at the time, he spent much of his time painting, producing mainly still lifes. In 1919, Le Corbusier joined the painter Amédée Ozenfant and the poet Paul Dermée to found the journal “L’Esprit Nouveau”, in which he first began using his pseudonym in 1920. In 1922, Le Corbusier produced an urban planning concept for a Ville Contemporaine – a “contemporary city with a population of three million”. In 1925, he collaborated with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret on designing a two-storied pavilion for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The avant-garde architecture of that pavilion was complemented by furnishings of functional design and paintings by Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz and others. By 1927, Le Corbusier was among the leading practitioners of the New Architecture designing the housing for the Weißenhof Settlement in Stuttgart. From 1927, he collaborated with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand to produce designs for functional furniture – including the LC4 chaise longue – which they showed at the 1929 Paris Salon d’Automne. Around 1942, he formulated his “Modulor” theory, which was Le Corbusier’s term for a system of proportion based on the Golden Mean that he used in his architectural designs, especially in his large-scale urban planning projects. Intended to facilitate architecture on a human scale based on an objective system, the Modular still remains one of the most controversial of Le Corbusier’s theoretical approaches to architecture. Le Corbusier also made substantial contributions to architecture theory as a co-founder of the Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), which first convened in 1928. In 1952, the first Unité d’Habitation was finished in Marseilles, followed by further modular residential units in other locations. Le Corbusier designed the pilgrimage chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamps in 1955. Le Corbusier died in 1965 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
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