FREE SHIPPING TO ANY STRUCTUBE STORE Contact Us Find a store Shop all living roomShop all dining roomShop all bedroomShop all officeShop all lightingShop all accessoriesShop all saleBrowse InspirationThe LC4 Chaise Lounge (1928), dubbed the "relaxing machine," is a lounge that mirrors the body's natural curves while appearing to float above its supports. LC4 is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Cassina in Italy holds the exclusive worldwide license from the Le Corbusier Foundation. PRICE: Starts at $5130. The LC4 Chaise Lounge (1928), dubbed the "relaxing machine," is a lounge that mirrors the body's natural curves while appearing to float above its supports. Cassina in Italy holds the exclusive worldwide license from the Le Corbusier Foundation. Steel frame and base. Length: 62.9" / 160cm Width: 22.2" / 56.4cm Chaise-lounge with adjustable polished chrome plated or matte black enamel steel frame. Matte black enamel steel base.
Available in Hairyhide (cowskin) with black leather headrest Leather (headrest in black leather or in the same colour as the mat) Special beige canvas (natural, dark brown or black headrest and footrest). Headrest with polyester padding. Contact Us For Pricing Established in 1927 in Italy, Cassina has worked side by side with the world’s best designers, becoming a pioneer in European design. Their furniture is inspired by industrial design. In 1964, Cassina took over production of the licensed works of Le Corbusier and his collaborators. It continues to hold the exclusive worldwide license from the Le Corbusier Foundation. Known for excellent quality, Cassina has been convincing design lovers with its unique creations for over 80 years! Cassina LC4 Chaise Lounge Designed by: Jeanneret & Perriand , 1965Le Corbusier , 1965 Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand Pierre Jeanneret, Switzerland, 1896 - 1967 / Charlotte Perriand, France,1903 - 1999
Born in Paris in 1903, Charlotte Perriand designed furniture made of anodized aluminum and chromium-plated steel, showing it at the 1927 Salon d’Automne in Paris. Charlotte Perriand, Swiss-born Pierre Jeanneret and his cousin, Le Corbusier, collaborated on many projects until 1937. Charlotte Perriand had a paramount share in designing much of the furniture the collective produced during those years. The revolutionary tubular steel furnishings designed by the three were presented at the 1929, Salon d’Automne, where they were widely acclaimed. These functional pieces include the Chaise Lounge B306, (later known as the LC4 Chaise Lounge). In 1928 the three designed Grand Confort B302 (which later became the LC3), a comfortable armchair with thick upholstery. In 1937 Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret collaborated on designing a mountain chalet of sheet aluminum and later they came up with plans for prefab houses made of aluminum. In 1940 Charlotte Perriand became a design consultant to the Japanese Board of Trade.
She lived in Japan until 1946 and from then on Charlotte Perriand’s designs reveal overtones of the Japanese feeling for form. In the late 1970s Charlotte Perriand was in charge of issuing a new edition of furniture for Cassina. In the early fifties Le Corbusier and Jeanneret set out for an urban planning project in Chandigarh, India, designing and producing low cost buildings for the community. Le Corbusier left the project mid-way and Jeanneret became the chief architect and urban planning designer. He stayed in Chandigarh for fifteen years and the city evolved into a landmark of modern architecture.View More by: Jeanneret & Perriand Switzerland, 1887 – 1965 “Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.” Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier, was born in Switzerland in 1887. As an architect, urban planner, painter, writer, designer and theorist, he was active mostly in France. In 1922, Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret opened an architectural studio in Paris, a partnership that would last until 1940.
They began experimenting with furniture design after inviting the architect Charlotte Perriand to join the studio in 1928. The following year Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand presented several pieces of furniture at the Salon d’Automne, in an installation titled Equipment for the Home. The tubular steel furniture – including the famous LC4 Chaise Lounge and LC2 and LC3 seating collections – projected a new rationalist aesthetic that came to epitomize the International Style. 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.” 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.
In 1964, while Le Corbusier was still alive, Cassina, of Milan acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to manufacture his furniture designs. Today many copies exist, but Cassina is still the only manufacturer authorized by the Fondation Le Corbusier.View More by: Le Corbusier Easy ReturnsNo questions asked. Fast Free DeliveryMany items in-stock.Orders over $750 ship for free! No CompromisesAccess high quality iconicdesigns within budget Everything ModernLocal Showroom:Seattle 98198. Desks & Cabinets | Guaranteed real customer feedback Customer Rating 4.9/5 Transparent review collection provided by Ekomi. All reviews are from customers that have completed a transaction with Kardiel. Click here to view all past reviews >Characteristic of the early environment at Knoll, Hans and Florence never demanded that Bertoia design furniture, but instead encouraged him to explore whatever he liked. They simply asked that if he arrived at something interesting, to show them.
Bertoia later explained the process: “I went around and discovered, quite soon, that I was not the man to do research. My feeling was that had to come from an inward direction. I began to rely once more on my own body. I began to think in terms of what I would like as a chair. It started very slowly…I came into rod or wire, whether bent of straight. I seemed to find myself at home. It was logical to make an attempt utilizing the wire. "Once more, I went through the procedure of positioning, considering the possibility of shapes, then relating, of course, what the wire itself could be, what shapes it might take, whether there were any tools to do it with. There are many aspects of the same things coming into one’s mind, but the very first thing was whether a shape would come up that would begin to serve as a chair, sitting on it, etc. One was taking the shape of a side chair; another was beginning to extend to care of the head. This developed to the point where something could be held on to…