In a profession that reaches over nearly the entire course of the 20th century, the Swiss-French architect and stylist Le Corbusier finished some of the most symbolize pieces of furniture of the present period. His designs were especially distinguished for their beginning of the sleek, “form follows function” aesthetic of modern “international style” architecture; individuality which can be located in his everlasting LC1 Sling Chair style.

One of Le Corbusier’s most legendary furniture creations, the Le Corbusier No.1 or LC1 Sling Chair is an advanced change of the classic British officer’s chair plan. Le Corbusier worked the LC1 in partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and French interior designer Charlotte Perriand. The Sling Chair was also amid the few designs by Le Corbusier that was showed at the high-status Salon d’ Automne or Autumn Salon art display of 1929 in Paris, France.

The LC1 Sling Chair is very plain in style and can be broken down into a handful of pieces: the tubular steel edge, seat and backrest. The frame is completed from industrial-grade tubular steel, and is layered with a layer of lustrous chrome plating. The seat and backrest, on the other hand, are created from premium taut ponyskin, Russian saddle leather, or aniline leather. The chair also includes a pair of similar arm rests which are essentially looped around either area of the steel frame. This uncommon arm rest design allowed the chair’s occupant to rest his or her arms contentedly without limiting their movement.

In addition, the LC1 also introduces a resourceful adjusting method at the back of the chair. This system consists of a plain variable rod which permits the seat to chair to modify accordingly whenever its resident shifts his or her sitting situation.

The LC1 Sling Chair at present holds the difference of being in the set of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

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