Modern, metal frame lounge chair on a black base. The concave, arched tubular steel chair has an elongated, tan cushion. The 'I-form' base features four flat tapering legs with small circular feet. The silver tubular frame has curved ends and rests on the base. The top section of the steel frame is covered with a conforming textile. A few of the circular grommets are exposed underneath the textile, with several white tie laces visible and dangling underneath.

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	We acquired this object.
1928	Work on this object began.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
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Lounge, LC4, 1928

This is a Lounge. It was designed by Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris).

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Brooklyn Museum as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated 1928. Its medium is wood, tubular steel, other metals, textile.

Interest in bending metal evolved primarily in Germany with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus, including Marcel Breuer. While Germany and Austria had a history of bent wood, German designers saw the impact of metal in modern interiors. Architect Le Corbusier teamed with his brother Pierre Jeanneret and designer Charlotte Perriand, addressing an interest in the human form when they brought this concept to France. This LC4 chair was purchased in Paris by Marian Willard Johnson, later owner of the Willard Gallery.

It is credited Lent by Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Miani Johnson in memory of her mother, Marian Willard Johnson, 2010.52.3.