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LC7 Chair  

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  • Chair designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1927 for her flat in place Saint-Sulpice, Paris. It was first exhibited at the 1928 Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Salle à Manger 28, and then in 1929 at the Salon d'Automne. It is a swivel chair with a steel structure chromed with trivalent chrome (CR3) or enamelled in grey, light blue, green, brown, terracotta and ivory or black. Available with 4 or 5 legs, the chair has an upholstered backrest and a soft padded seat cushion upholstered in leather or fabric. As the frame and upholstery required considerable manual labour, the chair was relatively expensive and produced in limited quantities. The acronym LC does not help to clarify the true authorship of the chair, but possibly increases its market value. In fact, the one sold is probably the variant of the armchair that Perriand had designed for his studio in 1927, a functionalist design, with a chromed tubular steel frame reduced to the essentials, and geometric lines and volumes. Le Corbusier is considered by critics to have created revolutionary designs, but it was Perriand who was the first to design functional furniture, with chrome-plated tubular steel and leather upholstered seat and backrest, in the furniture made for his studio flat. It is now produced by Cassina as Charlotte Perriand design, although in the Vitra catalogue it continues to appear as "Le Corbusier - Jeanneret - Perriand". In 1928 a variant of this chair called LC8 was produced, which has no backrest and is therefore considered a stool. Over the years, this modern swivel chair has become a design icon for its versatility and functionality.

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