Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret

le Corbusier , Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret
Charles e Ray Eames
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
René Herbst
Marcel Breuer
Anonymous
Jean Michel Frank
Isamu Noguchi
Eileen Gray
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Mart Stam e Marcel Breuer

 


Chaise Longue ( Art. 420)

 

Year: 1930.
Designer: Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret.
Material: Frame in chrome-plated steel tube, base in matt black lacquered steel. Matress and headrest in expanded polyurethane covered with leather.

 

 

In the twenties it already appeared in some sketches of the chaise longue probably inspirated by the "Morris Chair", designed by Philip Webb for the company of the english architect William Morris. In the years following after this prototype other chaise-longues were presented by the company Wanner ot Gand and the "Surrepos" by Dr. Pascaud, a Paris doctor. From the "machine for rest", as he liked to describe it, the author took otf the arms and modified the base on which the frame rested. Contrarily to the "Surrepos" this chaise-longue moves without any mechanism and maintains the desired position by only the weight of its user. It was presented in Paris at the "Salon d'Automne dea Artistes Décorateurs" of 1929 and probably used for the first time at the Villa Church, Ville-d'Avray. The chaise longue was first mass production by Thonet, France and later by the Swiss company, Embru.



Armchair (Art 900/1)

Year: 1928.
Designer: Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret.
Material: Frame in polished chrome plated or lacquered steel tube.

In 1928 Le Corbusier together with his collaborators Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret designed this range of arm chairs "Grand Comfort" in two different variations. The narrow variation "Le Petit Modéle" was designed for men, whereas the larger variation "Le Grand Modéle", was designed for women. The two varations were a result of a deep study made by Le Corbusier on the human body specially the different way of sitting between men and women. The carrying frame was designed in tubular steel forming a cage that conglobates the essential parts of the chair namely the seat, back, arms and cushions. These parts were first feather stuffed making them smooth and soft. Later expanded polyurethane material was used that made it more compact.

 


2 Seater Sofa (Art 900/2)

 


3 Seater Sofa ( Art 900/3)


Armchair (Art. 446)

Year: 1928.
Designer: Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret.
Material: Frame in polished chrome steel tube, back and seat in pony-leather or in leather, arms in heavy leather.

In 1929 this model "sièqe à dossier basculant" designed by Le Corbusier and his collaborators Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret was presented at the "Salon d'Automne" in Paris together with other pieces of this collection such as the chaise-longue and the "Grand Confort". The armchair, that had a back with an adjustable inclination, was realized with a frame in tubular steel of rigorous cubic shape and looked exotic because of the material used for the upholstery of the seal, back and arms. I was surely the colonial or the "safari" style that inspirated the design of this arm chair making it at the same time also easy. Le Corbusier used it for the decoration of Villa Church in Ville d'Avray, changing however the version, In 1935 at the Expo in Brussels it was presented in a wooden straw-bottomed version worked out by Charlotte Perriand but never put in production.

 

Year: 1929.
Designer: Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret. Material: Frame in matt black lacquered ovai steel tube, equipped with four adjustable supports. Crystal glass top.


Table (Art 816)

The table was designed in 1929 by le Corbusier together with Charlotte Perriand for the Paris exhibition "Salon d'Automne des Artistes Décorateures" and presented as a "Equipement interieur d'une habitation". Only after his death, in 1966, the table was rewarded with the "International Residential Design Award" of the American Society ot Interior Designer. In conformity with the corbuserian belief that house furniture should be produced only by large industries, he designed the table in view of an eventusì mass production. The trame of the table is formed by oval section metal tubes, used then a lot for aviation, which makes the product functional without any further futile decorations. The table top was tirstly made in naturai or in coloured wood and later replaced by a glass top thus giving the metallic frame its proper merits.

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