Timeless Modern Classic Furniture Design "The LC2 Chair"

Shape is the first thing one perceives in any object. Classic Modern furniture design is usually characterized by 2 types of shapes – raw, straight, angular shapes popularized in minimalism and oval curved outlines that give modern classic furniture designs an organic look. The LC2 chair transcends all conventions of contrived proportion, a defining standard of timeless design.

LC2 Chair creator Le Corbusier was born Charles-Edouard Jenneret on October 6, 1887 in LaChaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He was an internationally influential architect and city planner, whose designs combine the functionalism of the modern movement and sculptural expressionism. He belonged to the first generation of the self named International School of Architecture and was their most prolific propagandist in his many publications. In Le Corbusier's architecture he joined the functionalist aspirations of his time with a strong sense of expressionism.

Le Corbusier outlined in his 1925 book L'Art Décoratif d'aujourd'hui into practice. In the book he defined three different furniture types: type-needs, type-furniture, and human-limb objects. He defined human-limb objects as: "Extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions that are. Type-needs, type-functions, therefore type-objects and type-furniture. The human-limb object is a docile servant. A good servant is discreet and self-effacing in order to leave his master free. Certainly, works of art are tools, beautiful tools. And long live the good taste manifested by choice, subtlety, proportion, and harmony".

Le Corbusier’s "Modulor" is a system developed using human measurements, Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio with one goal – to discover the proportions of the human body and thus improve architecture. So we can say modern design revolves around the man and its main function is to serve him. Therefore scale and proportion have human-defined dimensions. Call it as you wish – ergonomics, functionality, comfort, it’s all correct.

Le Corbusier was the first architect to make a studied use of rough-cast concrete, a technique that satisfied his taste for asceticism and for sculptural forms. As life imitates art, art imitates Le Corbusier. Swiss interior architect and designer Stefan Zwicky created his homage to Le Corbusier in is "Domage a Corbu, grand confort, sans confort" (1980), Concrete and rebar. The soul of LC2 chair echos in complex serendipitious elements found in foundation constructed thought as tangible matter.
The Demisch Danant Gallery in New York sold the one ton Zwicky chair for more than $40,000.

In Paris, in 1929, Le Corbusier collaborated on modern furniture design experiments with fellow architects Charlotte Perriand and his cousin Pierre Jeannere. Among the many modern classic furniture design collaborations are the chrome-plated tubular steel chair line of furniture named LC1Sling Chair, LC2 Petite, LC3 Grande and the other equally iconic modern classic design furniture; the LC4 Chaise Lounge. Le Corbusier's furniture is not dated in the slightest, and even today fits perfectly with the modern home, mainly due to Le Corbusier's conviction that the binomial shape/function value must be expressed in the three dimensional manifestation of any daily used and useful object. Maxell features the LC2 in their "Blown Away" ads depict a male iconic figure sitting rather low in a LC2 high armed chair (on the right side of the screen) in front of, and facing, a Bang & Olufsen stereo.