Jonathan Emmesedi<p>🧵 2/4<br>Selection 3. Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand; Chaise Longue à Réglage Continu; 1928</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://www.heals.com/blog/icons-lc4/#:~:text=The%20LC4%20Chaise%20Longue%20made,the%20French%20branch%20of%20Thonet" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heals.com/blog/icons-lc4/#:~:t</span><span class="invisible">ext=The%20LC4%20Chaise%20Longue%20made,the%20French%20branch%20of%20Thonet</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Furniture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Furniture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LC4ChaiseLongue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LC4ChaiseLongue</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CharlottePerriand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharlottePerriand</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WomenDesigners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenDesigners</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LeCorbusier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeCorbusier</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modernism</span></a></p>