Le Corbusier Chaise Lounge (RC-006)

Product Name: Le Corbusier Chaise Lounge
Item No.: RC-006

**Polished stainless steel tubular frame, black lacquered steel base. The movable frame adjusts along the base from upright to full recline with ease.
**Italian leather or Long fur are available.
**The leather color is available in white and black. Other colors will require quantity.
**Product size: 1610*485*660(mm)
**As a "relaxing machine" it is a lounge that mirrors the body's natural curves while appearing to float above its supports.

Le Corbusier
Switzerland (1887-1965) Widely considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th 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 1923.

Born in Switzerland, Le Corbusier, was encouraged by a teacher to take up architecture. He built his first house at the age of 18 for a member of his school's teaching staff. In 1908, 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 1917, he returned to Paris where he met post-cubist Amedee Ozenfant and developed Purism, a new concept of painting. In 1920, 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 2005. Though Le Corbusier's illustrious career came to abrupt end in 1965 when he drowned while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Roquebrune Cap Martin in France, his influence is undisputed.