Grand Confort

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Grand Confort
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Grand Confort LC-3 (center and, partially, on the left)
Designer Le Corbusier
Date1928 (1928)–1930 (1930)
Materials Chrome on steel frame, leather cushions filled with PU-foam
Style / tradition Modernist
Sold by Cassina S.p.A.

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; and . [1] The LC-2 and LC-3 were referred as Cusion Baskets by Le Corbusier. They are more colloquially referred to as the petit confort and grand confort due to their respective sizes.

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These chairs have become most famous:

The LC-2 (and similar LC-3) have been featured in a variety of media, notably the Maxell "blown away" advertisement. [2] At the 2010 Apple event, the then CEO Steve Jobs used a classic LC-3 chair while introducing the iPad. [3]

They are a permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

In Sherlock, the modern-day BBC adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes sits in an LC-3, while Dr. Watson sits in a traditional club chair.

In Spy × Family , the first volume depicts the character Twilight sitting in an LC-2. The Forger family's living room is also decorated with LC-2 chairs and sofa. [4]

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  4. "Here Are All The Designer Chairs Featured In Spy×Family So Far". Anime News Network. April 27, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.