Of all the fundamental designs that have came out of mankind’s imagination, maybe none would be as influential as that of modernism. Founded in the early 20th century, the contemporary style in architecture is famous for its uncomplicated, minimalist appearance and the dismissal of non-essential designs. But while most people bear in mind modernism as an structural style, it has also went over into furniture. In fact, the developers of the modernist style of architecture drafted furniture as well. One exquisite example of such a modernist furnishing is the Le Corbusier Sofa LC3.
Outlined in 1928, the Le Corbusier Sofa LC3 is a modernist feedback to the conventional club chair. It was crafted by the famous Swiss-French furniture designer Le Corbusier, who was also famous for his architectural works generated in the modernist style. Le Corbusier assumed in the concept that furniture is an annex of the human body, and that it must permit for unchallenged movement and ergonomic freedom for its inhabitant.
The Le Corbusier Sofa LC3 is truly part of a collection of furniture crafted by Le Corbusier, which contains theLC1 Sling Chair, the LC2 Sofa, and the LC4 Chaise Lounge. According to its closest counterpart, the LC2, the LC3 presented cushions that were adhered in place but not enclosed to the frame. The sense behind this was to generate the feeling of comfort from the upholstered surface while favoring with the modernist mantra of splendor minimalism and unusual industrial look. The LC3 also shares some qualities of the sling chair, with the reverse beauty of the structures of the sofa by having the forms outside instead of the inside. This outside frame also has the plus benefit of harboring thick pillows, which can fill the plentiful space inside the frame and support an atypical sumptuousness that is extraordinary even for other bulky sofas and chairs. Although, despite its likeness the Le Corbusier LC3 also had its unique appearance, including more generous stuff and the discretion of either down-wrapped foam or Dacron-wrapped cushions.
Despite the LC3 and the rest of its brethren were fully credited to Le Corbusier, its fame as a home furnishing was heavily moved by that of Heidi Weber, a German museum owner and colleague of Le Corbusier. In 1959, Mrs. Weber, under the consent of Le Corbusier, put the Le Corbusier Sofa LC3 and the rest of the batch into production. And it is amidst the production process that Weber rejected the spring mechanism of the sofas and layered the external frame with a chrome layer. The cushions were also fixed to make it more formal and appropriate, an appearance which still abides to this day.
