Charles-Edouard Jeanneret rechristened himself Le Corbusier in 1920 at the time he started his journal L'Esprit Nouveau. An active member of the Parisian art scene, he championed a minimalist modernism espousing the home as a ‘machine for living’. In 1923 he published his book Towards a New Architecture, followed in 1926 by Five Points of a New Architecture. In 1928 he began creating furnishings for his buildings in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. The furniture, entitled as a group ‘Equipment for Living’, featured the LC7 swivel chair, the LC1 armchair and the LC4 chaise longue. Thonet originally manufactured these pieces and many have now been reissued by Cassina. The trio also designed the Grand Confort range, a plump, upholstered answer to the lean art deco shapes of the other series.

Established in 1927, Cassina has been designing the future for over eighty years. During the 50’s the company, founded in Meda (Milan) by Cesare and Umberto Cassina, launched industrial design in Italy. Taking a completely new approach, which saw a shift from handcraftsmanship to serial production, the company began to work side by side with designers. Since then, Cassina has shown a striking inclination for research and the ability to spark multi-participant dialogues between the most talented designers of both the 20th and 21st centuries – Gio Ponti, Vico Magistretti, Mario Bellini, Philippe Starck & Piero Lissoni to name but a few - with quite diverse sensibilities, styles and creative spirits. Cassina holds the worldwide production rights for the iconic Le Corbusier range of furniture designs.