Le Corbusier Lc2

The lc2 poltrona armchair was designed by le corbusier pierre jeanneret charlotte perriand.

Le corbusier lc2. In this spirit le corbusier co designed a system of furniture with his cousin pierre jeanneret and charlotte perriand. He was born in switzerland and became a french citizen in 1930. The lc2 was designed in 1928 and brought to the limelight one year later at the salon dautomne in paris. Corbusier large glass top console or desk.

By le corbusier pierre jeanneret charlotte perriand cassina. The tubular steel furniture including the famous lc4 chaise longue and lc2 and lc3 seating collections projected a new rationalist aesthetic that came to epitomize the international style. He used sketches to establish the positions of the human body that the seating designs had to refl ect. It comes from the furniture collection which was a product of the collaboration between le corbusier charlotte perriand and le corbusiers cousin pierre jeanneret.

The le corbusier collection as it has been called since the nineteen seventies would never have seen the light of day without the programme created by le corbusier in april 1927. Le corbusier whose birth name was charles edouard jeanneret 1887 1965 was not only a pioneer of modern architecture but also an architect designer urbanist and writer.