Image source: Cassina — LC8 Tabouret tournant
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LC8 Tabouret tournant
Swivel stool by Charlotte Perriand with a chrome steel frame and circular-material padding.
470 × 500 × 470 mm
1927
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The LC8 Tabouret tournant, durable ("8 Tabouret tournant, durable") is a swivel stool credited to Charlotte Perriand. On the sheet the design is dated 1927 and the Cassina production 2023. The page ties it to the swivel armchair Perriand designed in 1927 for her Place Saint-Sulpice apartment in Paris. It measures 47 cm wide, 47 cm deep and 50 cm high.
Construction
The steel rod frame has a polished chromium-plated finish or is lacquered in price-list colours. The padding is polyurethane foam with a percentage of polyols from biological sources and recycled PET fibre batting. The upholstery is fabric or leather, fixed with a black nylon cord, and the feet are black plastic.
Specifications
- Dimensions: 47 x 47 x 50 cm (drawing 008 on Cassina's sheet)
- Frame: steel rod, polished chrome or painted
- Padding: polyurethane foam with bio-based polyols, recycled PET fibre
- Upholstery: fabric or leather, black nylon cord
- Feet: black plastic
Story
From the atelier to the Salon d'Automne
The sheet describes the Tabouret tournant stool as a version of the swivel armchair Perriand designed in 1927 for her atelier, which was also part of the group of furnishings exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1929.
Common elements and re-issue
Within the collection called Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, its iconic shape and versatility reflect the desire to simplify mass production by employing common elements. Cassina introduced it for the first time in 1978 and re-issued it, with an eye to circularity, in 2023. The padding was developed using circular materials: recycled PET wadding and, for the foam parts, polyurethane with a percentage of polyols derived from biological sources.
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LC9 Tabouret
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LC7 Swivel Chair
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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.
