Sell Le Corbusier Chaise Lounge Chair

Widely considered one of the most influential architects of the *0th century, Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) is credited with changing the face of urban architecture, bringing it into the technological age. Connecting architecture with revolution, his legacy demonstrates a strong, if utopian, sense of purpose to meet the needs of a democratic society dominated by the machine. “Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city,” he said in ***3.

Born in Switzerland, Le Corbusier, was encouraged by a teacher to take up architecture. He built his first house at the age of *8 for a member of his school’s teaching staff. In ***8, he went to Paris and began to practice with Auguste Pierret, an architect known for his pioneering use of concrete and reinforced steel. Moving to Berlin, Le Corbusier worked with Peter Behrens, who taught him about industrial processes and machine design. In ***7, he returned to Paris where he met post-cubist Amedee Ozenfant and developed Purism, a new concept of painting. In ***0, still in Paris, he adopted the pseudonym, Le Corbusier.

Paradoxically, Le Corbusier combined a passion for classical Greek architecture and an attraction to the modern machine. He published his ideas in a book entitled, Vers une Architecture, in which he refers to the house as a “machine for living,” an industrial product that should include functional furniture or “equipment de l’habitation.” In this spirit, Le Corbusier
co-designed a system of furniture with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. 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.

Corbusier was both credited and criticized for his reinvention of the modern urban skyline the efficient, yet austere buildings that he pioneered in Paris’ banlieues were the setting of a massive riot in ***5. Though Le Corbusier’s illustrious career came to abrupt end in ***5 when he drowned while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Roquebrune Cap Martin in France, his influence is undisputed.