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Selection 3. Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand; Chaise Longue à Réglage Continu; 1928
The 1929 photograph that illustrates the piece for the NYT article shows off the chair in use to the best advantage and succeeds as a work of photography in its own right.
In addition, the photo draws attention to Charlotte Perriand who, as the link below notes, probably deserves more credit than Corbu himself for this design.
This chaise longue also shows how paradoxical modernism can be. In its materials and its ergonomic shape, it breaks decisively with the overstuffed, the chintzy, the historicist; if ever a piece looked like a product of modernity, the LC4 Chaise Longue most definitely does.
Yet at the same time, it is a piece unsuitable for mass production in large quantities, beyond the budget of most, and a challenge for modern apartment dwellers of moderate means: think about the floor space that this seating for one person occupies. In short, it's for millionaires, not the masses.
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