Pamono Chaise Lounge by Le Corbusier for Cassina, 1990s

The LC4 chaise lounge is a Bauhaus classic and is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Each piece is signed, numbered, and produced by Cassina under an exclusive worldwide license from the Le Corbusier Foundation. This original Cassina LC4 lounge chair was produced between the 1990s and 2000s and features a black leather seat and headrest on a tubular steel frame with a polished chrome finish and a black lacquered steel base. The chrome frame is stamped with “LC4 N°33886” and the steel base is stamped with “Cassina.” Made in Italy.

The iconic and timeless LC4 chaise longue was created by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, and Pierre Jeanneret in 1928 and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in Paris in 1929. Drawing on an analysis of living room chairs and the proportions derived by Le Corbusier in the Modulor, the chaise longue embodies the relationship between form and function, balancing the purity of its design with the comfort of its seat, modeled after the natural contours of the body. Le Corbusier believed that furniture should be “extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions.” Designed to mimic the natural curves of the human body at rest, the movable “floating” structure of this iconic armchair adjusts along its base, following your every movement from upright to fully reclined. Known as the “relaxation machine,” the LC4 balances form and function with exquisite precision.