Born in 1887 as Charles Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, he became a most inflluential - and controversial architect and artist. He devised the "Dwelling Machines", prototypes of an inhuman suburban architecture, but as well masterpieces like the Ronchamps Chapel the Villa Savoye and remarkable modernist paintings. He drowned in 1965 while being a guest in Eileen Gray's house in Roquebrune on the french Côte d'Azur.

His furniture designs were more of a side product in his attempt to streamline modern housing. Traditonal, wooden furniture would simply not fit into the small units he projected. In his early interior designs, he uses Thonet chairs, which were the first industrially produced furniture. At the Salon d'Automne de Paris in 1929 he presents his own furniture collection in modernist style. Result of a cooperation between him, his assistant Charlotte Perriand and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret.

The list of the designs by the Le Corbusier team in 1929. Apart from the "Casiers Standard" a modular storage system, this is all of his furniture. He called it "Living Equipment" but back then it did not find much acclaim and apart from a few prototypes that were made by Thonet in Paris and Embru in Switzerland, they did not go into production. Mainly because they were too difficult to produce. Projected as furniture for the working class, it is an irony that their technical complexity made them become luxury items and status symbols.

Left: The Corbusier furniture at the Salon d'Automne, showing the whole collection. Right: Prototype of a "Fauteuil Grand Confort, Grand Modèle" which is nowadays known as LC 3.

Le Corbusier Design Furniture Reproductions by steelform.com:

The 1929 Designs
LC 1 Chair	LC 2 Chair	LC 3 Chair	LC 4 Chaiselongue
LC 6 Table	LC 7 Turning Chair	LC 8 Stool	LC 10 Table
Later additions not by Le Corbusier
LC 2 Sofa	LC 2 Sofa	LC 3 Sofa