In 1928, the Swiss- born French architect Le Corbusier created some investigational furniture styles in partnership with his cousin Peirre Jeanneret and French interior designer Charlotte Perriand. These creations were notable for including the modernist qualities typically given to modern architecture, thus making them one of the earliest model of what is now known as modern furniture design. Among these designs by Le Corbusier is the LC 3 Sofa.

Even if Le Corbusier was one called to have quipped 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 based by Le Corbusier’s earlier Grand Comfort armchair style. The sofa is fundamentally comprised of a sturdy external frame of chrome-plated tubular steel that creates the loose cushions that work as the sofa’s seat and backrest. Early production runs of the sofa were also fitted with an interior spring system, though this was discarded in sofas done after the late 1950’s.

Debatably the numerous 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 have. Believing that traditional works is obsolete, Le Corbusier placed the frame of the sofa exterior to highlight its magnificent structure to the client. And to balance its metallic frame, the sofa’s polyurethane and original down cushions are layered with black or white upholstery created from either leather of fabric.

The Le Corbusier No. 3 Sofa is part of the LC 3 furniture compilation which also compose of the LC 3 Meridienne and the LC3 Ottoman. A three-seater type of the LC 3 Sofa was also produced, although it is not portion of the latest collection and was established on various sketches Perriand made at Le Corbusier’s studio.

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