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Chaise longue à réglage continu, also Chaise longue modèle B 306 à réglage continu or Chaise longue B 306 (later Chaise Longue - LC4, in 1964), is a chaise longue designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and the French designer Charlotte Perriand, who worked in the atelier of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his partner Pierre Jeanneret.
Le Corbusier began experimenting with furniture design in 1928 after seeing a model apartment designed by the architect Charlotte Perriand and inviting her to join his studio. His cousin, Pierre Jeanneret , also collaborated on many of the designs.
Chaise Longue (1928) by Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier Perriand was familiar with Thonet's bentwood chairs and used them often not only for inspiration but also in her designs. Their chaise longue, for this reason, bears some similarity to Thonet's bentwood rocker although it doesn't appear to rock when sitting on the 4-legged base.
Grand Confort is a cube-shaped high armchair, whose leather cushions are held in a chrome-plated steel corset.It was designed as a modernist response to the traditional club chair in 1928 by a team of three: Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and his cousin and colleague Pierre Jeanneret. [1]
A chaise longue sofa An 18th-century rococo chaise longue A late 19th-century chaise longue. A chaise longue (/ ʃ eɪ z ˈ l ɒ ŋ, tʃ eɪ z-,-ˈ l ɒ̃ ɡ /; [1] French: [ʃɛz lɔ̃ɡ], "long chair") is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs of the sitter. In modern French, the term chaise longue ...
Held in her mother's arms, Charlotte joined the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch the traditional flyover that celebrates the Queen (who was decked out in neon green!).
The word is adopted from the Greek triklinion (τρικλίνιον)—from tri-(τρι-), "three", and klinē (κλίνη), a sort of couch, or rather chaise longue. Each couch was sized to accommodate a diner who reclined on their left side on cushions while some household slaves served multiple courses brought from the culina , or kitchen ...
Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his wife Ray-Bernice Kaiser Eames, he made groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts.