Image source: Cassina — LC3 Sofa
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LC3 Sofa
Two-seat Grand Confort, grand modèle: loose cushions in a chrome or painted tubular-steel cage.
1680 × 620 × 730 mm
1928
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The 3 Fauteuil Grand Confort, grand modèle, deux places (LC3 two-seat sofa) is the two-seat model of the grand modèle family. Its product sheet reads 1928 beside Designed by, Cassina, 1978 beside Produced and a note crediting Perriand with the 1978 adaptation made for Cassina; the product page headline says 1965.
Construction
- Frame: tubular steel cage, polished chrome or painted (ivory, light blue, mud, grey, brown, black, green)
- Cushions: polyurethane foam of variable density, with resin-treated polyester fibre batting laminated to the lining
- Cover: fabric or leather; the configurator offers fabric categories L, E, O, F and leather categories X, Z, Y
- Loose cushions sit inside the cage, which carries the piece
Specifications
- Two-seat sofa 003 2_/F_: W 168 x D 73 x H 62 cm, seat height 40 cm
Story
Frame and cushions apart
Cassina's page presents the idea of modernity in the grand modèle as a split between a metal load-bearing frame and the upholstered parts. In every version, from armchairs with one or two arms to the two- and three-seat sofas, the loose cushions are set inside a tubular cage.
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New versions and finishes
Cassina says it develops new versions and finishes in step with Charlotte Perriand, her daughter Pernette and the Fondation Le Corbusier, so that each reinterpretation stays true to the original.
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Collection
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Collection
Cassina's Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand collection: furniture from their 1927-1937 collaboration, mass-produced by Cassina since 1965.
