“We don’t embroider cushions here,” was Le Corbusier’s response to a young Charlotte Perriand after she showed him her portfolio in October 1927. A few weeks after shooing her away from his office, he had a change of heart and employed her at his atelier in Paris and she rose through the ranks to become responsible for the furniture and interior design. Together, they designed the LC4 – the iconic recliner in tubular metal and leather. Le Corbusier once stated that furniture should be “extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions,” and in a new book Augustine and Josephine Rockebrune have catalogued instances where, to adopt Louis Sullivan’s modernist mantra, form definitely follows function.
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