LC14 Tabouret Cabanon

Overview

The LC14 Tabouret Cabanon is a box-shaped wooden stool credited to Le Corbusier. Cassina's page, titled LC14 Tabouret Cabanon, Tabouret Maison du Brésil, Tabouret Nantes Rezé, prints "DESIGN BY LE CORBUSIER, 1952" and groups three versions under one product: the Tabouret Cabanon in solid chestnut, the Maison du Brésil stool in solid oak and the Tabouret Nantes Rezé in lacquered oak. The drawing coded 014 01 on Cassina's sheet is 43 cm wide, 27 cm deep and 43 cm high.

Construction

The Tabouret Cabanon has a frame of glued solid chestnut slats with a clear matt open pore varnish and an oblong hole on each face; the dovetail joints highlight the connecting points between the solid wood pieces. The Maison du Brésil version has a frame of glued solid oak slats with a clear matt open pore varnish and dovetail joints on the corners. The Tabouret Nantes Rezé is birch plywood with an oak veneer in a matt open pore lacquer, its faces in two colours from the Le Corbusier palette.

Specifications

• Dimensions (drawing 014 01): 43 x 27 x 43 cm; the sheet's drawings carry codes, not version names
• Cabanon: solid chestnut, natural stain, clear matt open pore varnish
• Maison du Brésil: solid oak, natural stain, dovetail corners
• Nantes Rezé: oak, open pore lacquer in two colours of the Le Corbusier palette

Designed in 1952 for the Cabanon

The page says the Tabouret Cabanon dates from 1952 and was made for Le Corbusier's Cabanon, a cabin on the Côte d'Azur where, besides much built-in furniture, he imagined loose pieces all designed as boxes. Cassina calls it a Spartan yet sophisticated seat, whose dovetail joints show where the solid wood pieces meet and whose oblong opening along each side makes the stool easy to carry.

Nantes Rezé and Maison du Brésil

The Tabouret Nantes Rezé, according to the page, comes earlier than the Brésil stool in its 3-D composition and has simpler joints. It follows the idea of the 'found object' that Le Corbusier liked late in life, and was made for the children's rooms of the Unité d'habitation at Nantes Rezé. The Maison du Brésil stool is dated 1959 and was designed for the Maison du Brésil in Paris; its oblong openings on the two main sides allow it to be set horizontally or vertically.