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The Full Story

The resulting chair, a simple, tubular steel structure fitted with almost decadently comfortable down wrapped, leather-covered cushions, was a plump, upholstered answer to the lean art deco aesthetic that dominated the era. Amazingly, the chair, which debuted at the 1929 Salon d’Automne art exhibition in Paris, is as relevant, fresh and modern today as it was when it was first seen in the 1920s.

The Le Corbusier group, which on this particular project included Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, referred to their LC3 and the similar, smaller-scaled LC2 collections as “cushion baskets,” created to provide a modernist take on the ubiquitous club chair. On the Grand Confort seats, the cushions are held in place without being attached to the frame, providing the comfort of a well-padded chair while still adhering to the industrial and minimalist principals of modernism’s International Style.

Perhaps the chair endures today because the man who created it was more than just a furniture designer. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Gris adopted the single name Le Corbusier to demonstrate his belief that anyone could reinvent oneself – a practice that was in vogue among many leading artists in 1920’s Paris. Le Corbusier was an architect and urban theorist who pursued his vision of “the good society” for over 40 years. Not all of his ideas of utopian urban living are still relevant today, but Le Grand Confort chair remains a fixture in elegant, modern homes and offices around the world, nearly eight decades after it was first created.

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