Armchair LC2 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Charlotte Perriand for Cassina

The Swiss architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965), his cousin Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) and the designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) worked together from 1927 to 1937 in the Paris studio on rue de Sèvres. Perriand, trained at the École de l'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, had equal responsibility for furniture and interiors; her independent creative contribution is today regarded as historically established and is no longer seen merely as assistance to Le Corbusier. The collaboration produced the LC2 Grand Confort armchair, the LC4 Chaise Longue Basculante and the LC1 swivel chair (all 1928), made of chrome-plated tubular steel, leather and horsehair, an expression of Le Corbusier's idea of the machine for sitting. Since 1965 these models have been produced under licence by Cassina; as chief architect, Jeanneret later also shaped the reconstruction of the Indian planned city of Chandigarh.