Though most people remember him now as a top pioneer in modern architecture, the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier also designed modern furniture. In 1928, Le Corbusier (whose true name is Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) worked with French interior designer Charlotte Perriand, making with several tubular steel furniture that were in a while featured at the historic Salon d’ Automne art display in Paris in 1929. Together with these furniture creations was the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa.

Le Corbusier once stated that sofas are “bourgeois”, which is amazing considering that his LC3 Sofa is one of his most popular works. One of the many sofa designs he made in his career, the Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa is a two-seater sofa made up of an external steel frame and loose cushions as its seat, back, and arm rests. Different from those seen in conventional sofa designs, the LC3 Sofa’s tubular steel frame is on the exterior and draw round the shape of the couch. The frame is also coated with a level of chrome, matte black enamel, or shinny finish to make it be noticeable . The cushions, on the other hand, are filled with polyurethane, polyester or original down feathers and covered with rich black leather or fabric.

The Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa is a set of Le Corbusier’s LC3 furniture group, which also consist of an armchair and “meridienne” chair design. In addition, a three-seater type of the LC3 Sofa has also been made and recently been included in the LC3 set. This three-sitter version is based partly on Le Corbusier’s “Grand Comfort” armchair design as well as from several sketches by Perriand.

The Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa was primarily put into production in the 1930s up to 1959, when the entire Le Corbusier furniture group were re-introduced with several minor improvements. Then in 1964, the designer furniture company Cassina S.p.A obtained the rights from Le Corbusier himself to produce his designs. Today Cassina stays as the highest reproducer of the LC3 Sofa and the rest of Le Corbusier furniture collection, although reproductions from other producers are also generally available.

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