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GRAND CONFORT by Le Corbusier

"Grand Confort, petit modèle" - the armchair Grand comfort - in the two versions, petit and grand modèle - is part of the series of furnishings in tubular steel presented in 1929 at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, which were born from collaboration between Le Corbusier, his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand.
In line with their views on the themes of proportion and ergonomics, they created the grand modèle for women, who tend to sit with their legs crossed in a diagonal line, and the petit modèle for men, who instead tend to sit straight with their legs open.
The prototype was different from the current model: in 1959 when the production in series began in Zurich, the interior decorator Heidi Weber suggested chrome-plating the structure, giving the cushions a square, formal appearance, and eliminating the spring mechanism in the back legs, which made the chair bend backwards. These changes did, without a doubt, contribute to its commercial success.
A sample of the petite modèle is on display at MoMA in New York.

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